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Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports. One of the great myths about the Argentine economy that is repeated nearly …

On Wednesday and Thursday, the House is expected to take up consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act. Amendments will be offered to expedite military withdrawal from Afghanistan, to …

Part I – The Death Knell of the Two State Solution　 Over the past month Palestinian leaders have begun to publicly acknowledge that continuing actions by the Israeli government, …

The weather's getting warmer in Afghanistan and the war there is heating up again. That means, as it has meant every year for more than a decade, that the …

Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists: Lobbyists who circumvent normal lobbying regulations and procedures to advance the corporate agenda in statehouses nationwide on the taxpayer dime.

One of the few tangible ways that Dodd-Frank has helped damp down financial excess had been the introduction of shareholder Say on Pay votes on the remuneration of top …

I haven’t been writing about the JPMorgan debacle because, well, everyone else is writing about it. One theme that has stuck out for me, however, has been everyone’s reflexive …

It was fitting that while President Obama and his Hollywood apostles broke fundraising records at a sumptuous $40,000 per plate dinner at George Clooneyu2019s place, word of JPM Chaseu2019s …

Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and theneck-and-neck opinion polls are pouring in.  But …

Right now, as Warren and Brown meet voters, they are telling their stories as political parables, loaded with ideas about opportunity versus just deserts, social investment versus making your …