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Immigration Policing Opt-Out Called Into Question
New York - Will U.S. local law enforcement be forced to participate in a programme that critics say will put city police in the position of enforcing federal immigration …
Brazil Elects Dilma Rousseff as First Female President
The 62-year-old spent three years in jail, studied economics and served as Lula's chief of staff. Rio De Janerio, Brazil - Latin America’s largest democracy chose its first female …
Outside Groups Dominate 2010 Campaign Spending
Aurora, Colorado - A snarling dog rushes the front door, but GOP House challenger Ryan Frazier, campaigning house to house, is more concerned about defusing attack ads flooding the …
Rick Wolff | Economic Crisis and Tax Injustice
The Associated Press's Robin Hindery reported on October 29, 2010 that the AP had found a remarkable fact: communities across the US have been raising their local property taxes. …
Stephen Pitt | An Exhausted Christine O’Donnell Sleeps After Halloween
WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, but It Isn’t Funny
By now you've probably seen (or at least heard about) the recent WikiLeaks logs on Iraq (and previously on Afghanistan), which reveal a pattern of widespread brutality and official …
The New American Isolationism: The Cost of Turning Away From War’s Horrific Realities
A new isolationism is metastasizing in the American body politic. At its heart lies not an urge to avoid war, but an urge to avoid contemplating the costs and …
GOP Leaders Concede Senate May Be Out of Reach
Washington - Top Republicans conceded Sunday that they could fall short of winning control of the Senate in Tuesday's congressional elections. With the Republican wave in danger of falling …
The Phantom Left
The American left is a phantom. It is conjured up by the right wing to tag Barack Obama as a socialist and used by the liberal class to justify …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | No Final Victories
Bristol, Pa. - It was just four years ago that the Democratic Party began its comeback in what now seems like another country. The economic collapse was not in …