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Recent weeks have brought yet another sad chance to watch badly laid plans in Afghanistan go haywire. In three separate incidents, allies, most from the Afghan National Army …

State and local tax systems are regressive: they tax low-income households at higher rates than high-income households. This issue has come to light as some states, looking for ways …

(Photo: Eric Wagner / Flickr) As one of the more promising offshoots of the Occupy movement, Occupy Our Homes - the grassroots effort to prevent evictions and …

Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon has taken self-dealing to new heights.

(Photo: DHANU / Flickr) Public-sector banking is a concept that is relatively unknown in the United States. Only one state - North Dakota - owns its own …

Although we currently live in a world informed by George Orwell’s dystopian unmasking-as-novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, we seem unable to acknowledge that the Ministry of Peace is actually waging war. …

When among friends, you're far more likely to air your dirty secrets. A corporate conference held in Houston, Texas, on October 31 to November 1, 2011, titled "Giving Communications …

Facts are stubborn things, said founding father John Adams, a basic truth Ronald Reagan famously mangled at the Republican National Convention in 1988, when he tried to quote Adams …

There is a terrible rule of war. Whatever new weapon that you introduce onto the battlefield, your adversary will eventually acquire it as well. Indeed, they will often use …

I’m an artist. I love art. I create art. I get upset when someone tries to denigrate the very meaning of art. So I was outraged when I learned …