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Another year of malaise along the Atlantic. By the numbers, the great recession's long gone. The World Bank forecasts that developing countries — chugging along at an average growth …

Bills were introduced on January 18, in both the House and Senate of the Washington State Legislature, that add Washington to the growing number of states now actively moving …

Rather than being unspoken and unseen, violence in American life has become both visible in its pervasiveness and normalized as a central feature of dominant and popular culture.

According to Annabel Park, founder of the Coffee Party USA, the influence of corporations on elections is “a cancer in our political system.” Speaking by phone, she elaborates on …

As the mainstream news networks tell us, Gabrielle Giffords continues to recover, and efforts to make sense of the shooter likewise continue apace. The usual suspects are being rounded …

Kabul, Afghanistan - The Afghan government is putting new scrutiny on private security companies, raising concerns among Western officials that President Hamid Karzai may be accelerating efforts to push …

Moscow - An explosion rocked an international terminal of Moscow's busiest airport on Monday afternoon in what Russian officials described as an apparent terrorist attack. The Health Ministry reported …

In the run-up to the Republican House vote to repeal health care reform, I listened to the “debate.” Admittedly, at a somewhat greater distance than last time. But with …

 

Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric …