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If you ever doubted the erosion of popular democracy in the U.S., the next few weeks should set you straight. The simple fact is that the voting population is …

If you ever doubted the erosion of popular democracy in the U.S., the next few weeks should set you straight. The simple fact is that the voting population is …

Back in Al Caponeu2019s day, Prohibition helped give rise to a rash of epic crime-boss fortunes. In our day, deregulation has spawned on Wall Street an entire new generation …

Though some intelligence analysts still doubt that the Syrian government launched a chemical attack, the political momentum for a U.S. retaliatory strike may be unstoppable. But the broader framework …

Instead of responsibly waiting for the UN chemical weapons team - which is already in Syria - to investigate the incident, the Obama administration has already stated that such …

Clare Donohue spent her teenage years growing up in the Catskill Mountains hamlet of Roscoe where water was central to the area’s way of life. Her family often fished …

Gerald Friedman: “Only a single payer program can provide universal coverage, and only a single payer program can control costs.”

Nothing less than our collective, twenty-first century understandings of such terms as u201cdemocracy,u201d u201crevolution,u201d and u201cviolence/nonviolenceu201d are being forged on the streets of Egypt today.

The NSA surveillance scandal is causing an uproar in Germany where the political landscape is haunted by a Nazi era intrusive government.

Ellen Brown: Giant banks are buying up our country's infrastructure - the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy.