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Political prisoners? Surely, that can't be right, can it? Surely, it's only dictatorships in far-flung corners of the world who hold political prisoners, and not the United States of …

On December 6, the President said “there is no reason that ordinary Americans should see their taxes go up next year.” Apparently, the Administration staff who negotiated the deal …

New York - A new report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) charges that China has largely failed to meet the commitments laid out in its first-ever National …

Meet the new global elite. They're pretty much the same as the old global elite, only richer and more smug.

Have you noticed that Lockheed Martin, the giant weapons corporation, is shadowing you? No? Then you haven’t been paying much attention. Let me put it this way: If you …

American education has peaked. Accept it. It has serious SYSTEM problems, and the present crop of reformers is making those problems worse. We’re not going to get the schools …

Oil Spill Panel: BP Disaster Could Have Been Prevented With More Oversight

Whatever your political leanings, you'd have to be incredibly hardhearted not to be moved by the shooting in Tucson that claimed the lives of a federal judge and a …

The War On Drugs, fought mostly in poor and person-of-color communities (despite the fact that whites are more than 70 percent of all drug users) has contributed dramatically to …

Two conservative ideologies are at work behind the huge prison population. Following Lynn Parramore’s piece on on solitary confinement, it’s important to note that criminal sentencing reform will be …