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Ever since President Roosevelt signed an oil agreement with Saudi Arabia in 1945, our fraught relationships in the Middle East have been driven by our militarized dependency on their …

Even more gratifying is the court's reinforcement of an obvious principle: The federal government has the responsibility for setting immigration policy, not the states. We do not need — …

The politics of the situation are clear enough. Paraguay was controlled for 61 years by the rightwing Colorado party. For most of this time (1947-1989), the country was ruled …

Itu2019s not a coincidence that the poor u2014 who do not have well-heeled lobbyists at their disposal u2014 lost while the powerful Sugar Lobby maintained its government favors.

The regulation monster is composed of the mounds of bureaucratic paperwork and red tape that strangles businesses.

The brothers of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's incompetent, impossibly vain, and dishonest president, have amassed astonishing fortunes.

The Obama campaign just released a campaign commercial talking about how Mitt Romney, while working at Bain Capital, oversaw the outsourcing of Americans jobs to China and Mexico. The …

Can a Bible be a u201cthreat to national securityu201d? For years, the government has employed the risk of u201cnational securityu201d excuse to infringe on a wide range of …

Both major political parties have been guilty in the past of rejecting democratic values in order to give their partyu2019s candidates an advantage. Now the right to vote is …

The U.S. media has been writing an obituary for Occupy, but in fact Occupy is active all over the country and is just being ignored by the corporate media. …