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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden talk with chief of staff Bill Daley, left, and senior advisor David Plouffe in the Oval Office, on April 7, 2011. …

Twenty-five years ago, the explosion at Chernobyl cast a radioactive cloud over Europe and a shadow around the world. Today, the tragedy at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant …

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Ever since House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan put …

Nalut, Libya - Fresh from seizing a key border crossing from Moammar Gadhafi's forces, rebels in this rugged mountain town said Sunday that they're winning a tough and largely …

Rachel Maddow, host of the 9pm (EDT) evening news and opinion show on MSNBC, reigns supreme as the most influential progressive. Or, more accurately, the media personality progressives love …

In American politics, the past not only sticks with us, but it often provides the best definition of what's going on in the politics of the present, so it …

“When the US began drone strikes in Pakistan in 2006, drone attacks were notoriously inaccurate,” wrote retired Pakistani military officer Shaukat Qadir at Counterpunch in an article about the …

I have a proposal. Like my earlier ones to the U.S. Department of Education and members of the appropriate congressional committees, it will almost certainly be ignored. But when …

Donald Trump is getting traction. He is talking about trade, jobs, China, manufacturing, China, jobs, China and China — and it is resonating with a public sick of being …

“The vastly ambitious CMRR project has greatly detracted from the attention needed to solve existing nuclear safety problems at LANL,” writes Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos …