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We always talk about “The American Dream” — about living it, saving it, wondering what happened to it. Few bother to define it. The stereotype shows a single-family house, …

Washington - Why did Republicans go to the trouble and expense of winning the midterm elections? It looks like they're about to prove, once again, that you can get …

Nuclear weapons treaties are like currency exchange rates — always vitally important to the national interest but often stunningly dull, not to say impenetrable. Yet Washington has suddenly been …

There is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington’s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It’s a war fought on the …

There’s really no need to parody American politics — politicians parody themselves so well. Take Republican Eric Cantor, a congressman from Virginia who will probably be the majority leader …

Despite sustained denials by US officials spanning more than a year, US military Special Operations Forces have been conducting offensive operations inside Pakistan, helping direct US drone strikes and …

It's a now-or-never moment for the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a conditional path to citizenship for certain immigrant youth. The bill's prospects won't improve with next …

Rev. Jesse Jackson describes our current moment as one of ‘exceptional poverty’ and is calling on President Obama to hold a bipartisan meeting on hunger and poverty.

Before the Great Recession it was common to suggest that the international reserve position of the dollar was in jeopardy, and that a crisis could generate a run on …