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Election day 2010 is so yesterday. Today and tomorrow, progressive women - who constitute up to 60 percent of the Democrats' base - had better regroup and start a …

The ongoing, often arcane, battle over whether telecommunications companies may slow certain online services and charge fees to speed up others has morphed into a civil rights controversy.

Washington - A special envoy from President Barack Obama raised the possibility in a secret meeting with senior Iraqi military and civilian officials in Baghdad Sep. 23 that his …

Update at the end of this report. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a watchdog group that aims to ensure that members of the US Armed Forces receive their …

Charles Rangel walked out of his congressional ethics trial in protest on Monday. Why did he refuse to defend himself? After all, if the House eventually condemns him (or …

While people like me see the Federal Reserve’s recent actions as far too timid, there’s a substantial faction out there that thinks they will very soon bring about the …

What is the matter with people in Washington and New York? There is obviously a jobs emergency and they're talking about deficits — and in the middle of a …

Washington - U.S. agriculture officials said Monday that the nation's 15 federal nutrition programs helped keep hunger in check in 2009 even as the number of unemployed Americans soared. …

Award-winning, Berkeley-based, editorial cartoonist Khalil Bendib’s cartoons are regularly featured in dozens of small and mid-size newspapers across the country, and they can be viewed at www.bendib.com. They have …

Many liberals went bananas over the new plan to reduce deficits. The ideas put forth by the chairmen of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission ignore their priorities, they lament.