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Can the Fed rescue the economy by making money even cheaper than it already is? A debate is being played out in the Fed about whether it should return …

After 17 days of searching and a week of relishing good news, rescue efforts set to begin in earnest. Copiapo,, Chile — If a wave of immense joy swept …

Victor Grossman, an expatriate American journalist now in his 80’s and living in Berlin, sees ominous parallels between America’s anti-Communist outrages during the 1950’s and the conservative ‘Blame-The-Other’ assaults …

Federal agents are looking into allegations that high-ranking New Orleans police commanders gave orders after Hurricane Katrina authorizing officers to shoot looters, our partners at the New Orleans Times-Picayune …

Depending on the source that is used, tens of thousands to between 87,000 to 96,000 people attended conservative commentator Glenn Beck's “Restoring Honor” rally on the steps of the …

California's Proposition 19 is generating debate across the country. During this midterm election season, the Monitor will feature a series of “one-minute debates” on top political issues. Yes: …

It appears that Simon [Johnson] beat me to commenting on Third World America, Arianna Huffington's bleak portrait of many of the things that are wrong with America (crumbling infrastructure, …

Washington - President Obama's address to the nation on Iraq this week underscores the agony of his presidency, and its core political problem. Seen from the inside, the administration …

Perhaps one of the biggest impediments to women's equality in the United States is a pervasive, persistent and too-common myth: it's all been done. It's a cruel trick, as …

President Obama is apparently content to have an abrasive and abusive senator's son sit as co-chairman of his deficit commission. We can assume that these traits were a direct …