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Decades ago, right wingers began championing cuts in income taxes for the rich and - when that lowered government revenue - turned around and claimed that government could no …

Remember our humanity, and forget all the rest. - Einstein

Baghdad - A female suicide bomber walked into a tent full of Shiite pilgrims on Monday, killing at least 46 people and wounding another 100 in the latest attack …

Able to quickly reach a well-developed network of women throughout the country, an alternative banking system performs while the Haitian economy is in shambles. A micro-credit program and banking …

Sometimes it pays to read a news story to the last paragraph where a reporter can slip in that little gem for the news jockeys, or maybe just for …

Hundreds of thousands of people are living and sleeping on the ground in Port-au-Prince. Many have no homes, their homes destroyed by the earthquake. I am sleeping on the …

Washington - With women's advocacy groups voicing growing unease with administration policy, President Barack Obama will propose a $3.8 trillion budget on Monday that would exempt programs for women …

Confronting the global corporate hijack of Nagoya's COP10. In the fog of war, climate chaos and economic ruin, the import of the United Nations' COP10 biodiversity treaty conference in …

Our political leaders continually assert that we should be thanking them that we are not in a second Great Depression rather than complaining about how bad things are. The …

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was President Ronald Reagan's last fiscal legacy. It showcased his deep belief in trickle-down economics, cutting the top rate on personal income nearly …