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The country faces a serious crisis in the form of a manufactured crisis over the budget deficit. This is a crisis because concerns over the size of the budget …

If President Obama gets to sign a health reform bill, as I believe he will, one reason may be Rep. Jay Inslee's difficult experience renovating his kitchen. He told …

Despite the recent squall in U.S.-Chinese relations, the fact remains that both countries have powerful reasons to cooperate with one another. These have grown over the last two decades, …

Sportswriter Dave Zirin, author of A People’s History of Sports in the United States, says the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl appearance—at least for the moment—is boosting spirits in …

For all the strides we've made against heart disease, it still accounts for 26 percent of all deaths in the U.S. This year alone, it will cost $316 billion …

The night before the big snow started to drop on our nation's capital, frenzied shoppers stockpiled toilet paper as if the entire city were about to be scooped up …

CBS has changed its longstanding policy of not allowing issue ads during the Super Bowl to accept an anti-choice advertisement from Focus on the Family, and women’s groups are …

False Profits: Recovering From the Bubble Economy By Dean Baker PoliPoint Press, 2010 He who feels punctured must once have been a bubble. - Lao Tzu, Tao Te …

More than an “unpaid advisor” to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, “First Dude” Todd Palin seemed to have his hands on the machinery of government and politics. Then there …

Yesterday, Truthout ran the first part of an interview with Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic, a Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University who has written three books on US misconduct …