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(Photo: Brent Danley / Flickr) The national efforts to stem the tide of pollution in the 1960s and 1970s made a difference: Americans had the Environmental Protection …

Muammar Qaddafi. (Photo: Jesse B. Awalt / Wikimedia) On 13 September, one of the world's biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government. On …

(Image: Center for Economic and Policy Research) Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more …

(Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr) ‘'If the top earners are O.K., then the rest of us will be O.K.'’ That piece of economic sleight of …

The “credibility” gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.

In last night's Republican Presidential debate, former US Ambassador to China and Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman was asked about Gov. Mitt Romney's call to confront China over their trade …

Peace has never been a particularly popular word in Washington, DC. This is, after all, the home of the Pentagon and the major military contractors, not to mention all …

Remember when the United States led the world in industrial technology? The peak of U.S. supremacy was back in the 1960s, when the “military-industrial complex” was in full force. …

"By 1970, the governments of the wealthy countries began to take it for granted that they had truly discovered the secret of cornucopia. Politicians of left and right alike …

Paris - With markets still volatile, and politicians only marginally closer to a solution of the euro’s troubles than they were two years ago, the future for the euro …