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Critics call out Congress for choosing the good will of doctors over the good health of patients, as the House proposes to lower funding for unemployment health benefits while …

In the fall of 2008, decades of finance-first, bankers-know-best economic policies coalesced to create one of the worst economic crises in history, one that the banks themselves could not …

The centerpiece of the first day of the America's Future Now! conference was expected to be a debate between representatives of two camps within the progressive movement: those who …

Jordan Flaherty is a journalist, an editor of Left Turn Magazine and a staffer with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story of …

Little Rock, Arkansas - In the past, incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln could have counted on Nancy Baker's vote. But on Monday, the Little Rock voter was on the city's …

China's Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall to thwart invasion. The French built their Maginot Line. Now Louisiana is gearing up to build offshore embankments of sand as bulwarks …

Friday’s job report was awful. For most new high school and college grads finding a job is harder than ever. Meanwhile, states are cutting summer jobs for disadvantaged young …

Gulf Coast residents are supposedly mad at President Obama for not keeping the oil from threatening their beaches and marshes. We hear this in stereo — from political opposition …

Washington - Concerns are mounting over the chemical dispersants BP's using to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico now that over 1 million gallons of the …

Global capitalism has plunged much of the world in a crisis of unprecedented proportions and is causing misery and suffering for millions of people.