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Election Countdown 2012: Maine Republicans Walk Out on RNC in Support of Ron Paul and More
The Republican National Convention forges on in Tampa as the rest of the country heads closer and closer to Election Day 2012.
Obamacopters Give West Papuans Another Reason to Worry
There has been talk of an arms deal between the United States and Indonesia.
Post-Katrina Reforms in New Orleans Continue to Disenfranchise African-Americans, Poor
Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a laboratory for government reforms that often pit new residents against those who grew up here, rich against poor, and …
Freedom and the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran
In March 2005, President George W. Bush used the phrase “freedom is on the march” in reference to Lebanon's Intifadat-al-Istiqlal uprising against Syria's heavy influence in their country. Bush …
Domestic Terrorism American Style
The Ku Klux Klan (the name derives from the Greek word Kuklos meaning circle with a modification of the word clan added), an American terrorist organization, was founded in …
The Second Civil War: Remembering the Battle at Blair Mountain
This weekend marks the anniversary of the most brutal confrontation in the history of the American labor movement, the Battle of Blair Mountain.
A Move to Free the Cuban Five
People stop in Victorville California 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles because they have to see someone at one of its several prisons (federal, state, county and city) or …
Election Countdown 2012: Hundreds Take to the Streets in Tampa for the RNC, and More
Police outnumbered demonstrators Monday as hundreds took to Tampau2019s streets to protest the Republican convention.
Don’t Pay Polluters
Paying firms not to pollute gives rise to a perverse incentive.
RNC to Open With Politician Who “Should Be in Jail“
“Tim Griffin should be in jail.” That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review.