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The Obama administration has closed the books on prosecutions of those who violated our laws by authorizing and conducting the torture and abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody.

I watched Eastwood live, and I found u201cthe one humanly interesting moment of the conventionu201d refreshing.

Bain Capital is not about producing wealth, but rather about siphoning off wealth that was produced elsewhere in the economy.

The Republican National Convention offered a look into one alternate future for America, a place where the ultimate liberty is to be fact-free. Mitt Romneyu2019s campaign set sail confidently …

The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to be reversed.

This punitive approach to poverty has driven poor mothers of color further to the margins of the economy, making them even more politically invisible.

Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten u201cstimulus packagesu201d of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped …

We are throwing away away up to 40% of our food, the research finds.

Two pieces of news came in this morning: one about the massacre of an Yanomami settlement in the Amazon, and the other about Obama green lighting Shellu2019s drilling in …

A chemical industry trade group is touting a job-creating side benefit of fracking in North Carolina, claiming that building a plant to process natural gas into the petrochemical products …