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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 16, 2011. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Irina Alexander is a …

Rep. Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) at a press conference where he introduced the “Afghanistan Exit and Accountability Act” on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 5, 2011. More recently, …

RV parked at Mitchell Caverns, a California state park closed in 2011 that has suffered from vandalism since being shut down. (Photo: Mollivan Jon) Top politicos in …

Brad Kittel, who has developed an entire philosophy around the concept of “sustainability through salvage,” builds “Tiny Texas Houses” that are as much as 99% “pure salvage.” Some as …

Well in advance of the 2014 centennial of the beginning of “the war to end all wars,” the First World War is suddenly everywhere in our lives. Stephen Spielberg’s …

Family members of Ahmed Farhan, who was killed on Tuesday by security forces, mourn over his body in village of Sitra, Bahrain, March 18, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce …

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier decided that in the civil trial against BP for their oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil company’s history of accidents and …

1. Death Penalty Repeal The proposed Death Penalty Repeal initiative would abolish execution as the maximum punishment for murder and replaces it with life imprisonment without …

When the black unemployment numbers dropped so steeply in January—from 15.7 to 12.7 percent—a lot of analysts were scratching their heads to figure out why. One told us that …

I can still remember when I first realized how naïve I was in thinking—hoping—that laying out the “facts” would suffice to change politicized minds, and especially Republican ones. It …