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Prior to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) speaking at a news conference about his bill to extend the debt ceiling, field recorders are laid out on top of a …

The tragic slayings in Norway raise anew serious questions about domestic terrorism and its roots in right-wing ideology and fundamentalist movements.

An Urban Search and Rescue Team bring victims of the flood waters of New Orleans to dry land by boat, August 30, 2005. (Photo: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA ) …

In the early fifties, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) used his position to smear establishment Americans as agents of the Soviet threat. (Photo: History In An Hour) The …

It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to avoid a state of nausea whenever I turn on my television. The ongoing debate over the national deficit and the much fraught …

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) delivers a Republican response to President Barack Obama's speech on the national debt at the Capitol in Washington, April 13, 2011. President Obama …

(Photo: Sergio Alvarez / Flickr) If you were a spectator in a sky box seat looking directly down on the Washington debt debate, you’d be seeing a …

On Sunday evening, President Obama and Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, announced they had reached an agreement on cutting $1 trillion in spending in …

As we get the final details of the debt ceiling deal between President Obama and Congress, we still have to wait for the verdict of the credit rating agencies. …

TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…