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The climate problem has moved from the abstract to the very real in the last 18 months.  Instead of charts and graphs about what will happen someday, we’ve got …

(Photo: biologycorner) The New York Times coverage of the recent National Education Association (NEA) convention focused on the inconsequential, while paying little notice to what harbored fundamental …

Washington - The wounded are especially dangerous fighters. President Obama now occupies the high ground in the debt-ceiling debate, having called the Republicans' bluff on the debt. He showed …

Silwan, a Palestinian village directly across the Kidron Valley, across from the City of David, in which high-profile settler organization Elad may have used suspect methods to acquire land. …

Washington - President Obama abruptly left debt negotiations with congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House when a top Republican said there was no longer time to engage in …

The American Civil Liberties Union and a University of Michigan professor filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the CIA and FBI that seeks files related to alleged attempts by the …

How deceptive for politicians to stress “entitlements” when they talk about gutting Social Security and Medicare, two programs long paid for by their beneficiaries. The Republicans make it sound …

Economists and politicians keep their fingers on the pulse of the Dow Jones Average, following every tick of this narrow measure of Wall Street wealth. But the …

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief execuive of News Corp., during an interview in his office in New York on Thursday, May 3, 2007. (Photo: James Estrin / The New …

Protesters look on as the Egyptian military forms a line on a road in Cairo, on June 29, 2011. The protesters were said to be angry over the slow …