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No big lessons or grand narratives emerged from yesterday's off-year elections - but there were lots of interesting local stories that reveal the conflicted reality …

Capitalist ideology - according to which the market can resolve all problems - has, in these last few days, reached the apex of the absurd. We have …

Expectations about how far and how fast President Obama can escort gay Americans down the road to full equality are so high that it's easy to underappreciate …

On election night 2009, the political spin machines were working overtime. The talking heads were opining on what the results meant for the president's standing …

Broad legislation allowing for sanctions against Iran swept through the Senate Banking Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee last week with overwhelming support. The sanctions' committee passages …

Former Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft had a busy day in court yesterday. A federal appeals court ruled he could not be held responsible for kidnapping …

A federal court in Buenos Aires on October 23 convicted two former army officials - Jorge Olivera Rovere and Jose Menendez - to life sentences, for crimes committed during …

Senator Joe Lieberman managed to shoehorn himself into the center of the national debate over health care reform last week with his announcement that he would …

Bernard Madoff, who became known as the operator of the Ponzi scheme thought to be the largest investment fraud in Wall Street history, said he wasn't impressed …

Airtime: Friday, November 6, 2009, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).