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US Spending on Afghan War Highest to Date

In states across the country, elected officials and right-wing pundits are calling not just for cuts to wages and benefits in the name of austerity, but even proposing laws …

In 1946, when my grandfather mustered out of the army and married my grandmother, he set up what looked like the ideal family at the time. His wife quit …

Steve Lendman interviews Henry Giroux. Dr. Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His books include “The University in Chains,” "Against the …

Efforts by the United Nations (UN), the US military and the Indian government to curb opium production in Afghanistan since 2007 have been largely ineffective, due in large part …

In the waning days of the lame duck session, the Senate had the opportunity to pass the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act.

There’s a lot to be said about the recent attack by conservatives on the Federal Reserve, though none of it is good. Representative Ron Paul of Texas will head …

For the third time in the last 20 years, establishment voices with high-profile slots in traditional media are trying to convince the public to accept cuts to Social Security …

In A Nutshell The Performance of Politics offers a new explanation for Barack Obama’s victory in 2008. Rather than demographics, strategy, and money, the argument focuses on cultural meaning …

Washington - Supporters of President Obama’s health-care reform are holding their breath as legal challenges to the individual mandate – the requirement that by 2014 virtually every American purchase …