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New report from nonpartisan group Congressional Research Service which examines the relationship between top tax rates and economic outcomes was rejected by GOP senators for its issues with

Contrary to rumors that Israeli Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered attacks on Iranian nuclear sites in 2010, it was revealed that Israel had no realistic military option …

By many standards, Obama has done a remarkable job, but he has fought against a powerful dynamic of modern US politics: a hatred of the federal government.

Plea bargaining has become historically ubiquitous as the principal, if not primary, method of criminal case disposition in the US.

Nixon and Romney both luxuriated in the patronage of casino tycoons thanks to the deep pockets of the same Mafia-linked company, the Sands Corporation.

The Supreme Court has so far refused to intervene in the voting rights mess unfolding in Ohio, instead leaving in place a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that …

While all eyes and ears are trained on the elections, Woody Guthrie, whose 100th birthday we celebrate this year, offers up another perspective on politics. In his poem u201cThis …

As Al Gore might say, the earth is in the balance.

It's time for the FBI to come clean about 60s-era manipulation of social movements.

Michigan voters have a chance to repeal