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Wisconsin Sen. Fred Risser. (Photo: Dave Hoefler) Fred Risser is a veteran Wisconsin state senator. Actually, he is the longest-serving state legislator in American political history. Bald …

A couple looks out at Cairo from al-Azhar park, February 15, 2011. (Photo: Scott Nelson / The New York Times) Cairo - In the months since Egyptian …

Over the past month, it seems that the news of a natural disaster striking a different area of the country has been a nightly occurrence. Whether a tornado or …

He had inappropriate sexual entanglements with a number of women and lied about it repeatedly to the American people. Yet nobody —- save for one Colorado law school prof—- …

After Javier Sicilia spoke to the crowd of thousands, he called for a 5-minute period of silence to honor the memory of victims of the drug war. (Photo: Kara …

The Obama administration’s mortgage modification program is more than two years old. From the beginning, it’s been apparent that the participating banks and mortgage servicers were breaking the program’s …

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(Photo: Oregonmetro.gov) 2011 marks the year for redistricting – the once-in-a-decade process to draw boundaries that determine your elected officials from local school boards and city councils …

(Photo: dignidadrebelde / Flickr) If you think that "double Irish" and "Dutch sandwich" are schoolyard jump rope games girls play, think again. These are the nefarious, but …

One great irony of the youth-led revolt in the Arab world is that the two shining successes, Tunisia and Egypt, were previously stellar examples of neoliberal policy. …