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Conservatives like to say that taxes are theft. In fact it is tax cuts that are theft because they break a long-standing contract.

Remember postindustrialism? Not long ago, this catchphrase was supposed to define America's future: no more grubby hard industries, just a clean bright world of services and high technology. Its …

From grocery stores and bakeries to bike shops and day care centers, worker-owned cooperatives are gaining popularity across the country. Unlike the profit-at-any-cost capitalist model, co-ops put people and …

With 3-1/2 months left before a United Nations climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, the spade work ahead of the meeting seems to be turning up more boulders than a …

Washington - Flying back to Washington from Pensacola, Fla., on June 15, President Obama and the man he put in charge of handling the Gulf oil spill, retired Coast …

Where are the Iraq troops that have been withdrawn under the Obama administration's plan? To draw attention to the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. Rep. …

Washington - In an effort to deter potential budget cuts by Congress and streamline a burgeoning Defense Department, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Monday proposed to cut spending on …

For disillusioned Obama supporters, the ACLU's July report “Establishing the New Normal” is not a heartening read. After being voted into office on promises that included undoing abuses carried …

Last week, in a stunning, carefully crafted, 136-page opinion, US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker held in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that California's Proposition 8, which outlaws same-sex marriage, is …

Washington - In response to Google and Verizon’s “policy framework” unveiled today, MoveOn.Org Civic Action, Credo Action, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, ColorofChange.org and Free Press, all members of …