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By now, most people can admit to the fact that former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson had a decades long career with the spy agency before high-level officials …

As California prepares to start shrinking its prison system, advocates see more peril than promise. Michelle Freeman's life hit rock bottom when she first started using crack cocaine in …

It is the duty of every pundit to be all-knowing on what the recent elections mean for the future of American politics. They may have only three dots to …

In a last-minute dissent ahead of a critical war cabinet meeting on escalating the Afghan war, US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry has cast doubt on a troop escalation until the …

Next Tuesday, when Sarah Palin's already-bestselling memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” hits shelves, another much-anticipated look at the Palin phenomenon will also debut: "Going Rouge: Sarah …

Nothing is more basic to our democratic society than the principle of majority rule. But what if the eligible voters who fail to cast ballots were automatically …

Disputes are raging within the Obama administration over how to continue the US war effort in Afghanistan. A new leak tells us that Washington's ambassador in Kabul, …

The Stupak-Pitts Amendment, barring private and public health insurance plans from offering abortions as part of basic coverage if they accept government subsidies, risks sinking the fragile health bill …

This essay was presented to the Claremont Democratic Club, May 8, 2009, but originally prepared for a talk at California State University at Northridge, California. Permission granted by the …

What pushes Arabs to deny the existence of the Holocaust? How and why does Israel continue to instrumentalize the memory of the destruction of European Jewry? What …