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No recent controversy has so plainly revealed the hollow values of the American right than the effort to prevent the construction of a community center in Lower Manhattan because …

Though Arizona’s SB 1070 went into effect without its most controversial provisions, the legislation’s stated intent—attrition through enforcement—is nevertheless gaining traction among anti-immigrant legislators across the nation. In the …

Prop. 8 overturned by US District Judge Vaughn Walker Wednesday. Judge Walker ruled that the California gay-marriage ban violates the Constitution's equal protection clause. Federal Judge Vaughn Walker Wednesday …

Campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008, Senator Barack Obama said, "I don't want to just end the war, but I want to end the mindset that got …

A federal judge's decision to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban has touched off coast-to-coast celebrations among gay rights activists, while Proposition 8 proponents plan their appeal. 

Washington - Rather than shout, I'll just ask the question in a civil way: Dear Republicans, do you really want to endanger your party's greatest political legacy by turning …

Washington - The housing boom that helped fuel U.S. economic growth and employment from 2000 to 2007 was an unsustainable bubble, and when it burst it not only sent …

Also See: Mike Ludwig | A Fracking War In a pre-dawn vote Wednesday, New York State's senate passed a bill that reaches beyond the debate over the environmental safety …

SOROBI, Afghanistan — In a country whose young parliament is filled with warlords, suspected drug barons, one-time mujahedeen fighters and religious zealots, Izatullah Nasrat Yar can still make history. …

In a sweeping and historic decision, a federal judge in San Francisco has announced that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. The ruling crushed several arguments posed by …