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It’s a well-known fact that Americans oppose government spending in the abstract yet favor virtually every government spending program. For example, last April Gallup reported that 73 percent of …

President Barack Obama talks on the phone while aboard Air Force One. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Within the past month, the Obama administration has heard …

The Army is keeping mum on whether the Army sergeant who went on a rampage in Afghanistan has ever been evaluated or asked for evaluation for PTSD, but it …

A state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values.

“Israel vs. Iran” reads a recent cover of The New York Times Magazine - the words written ominously in ashes from which smoke and flame still rise. Inside the …

Amid disturbing reports that psychologists were involved in the abuse and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on Psychological Ethics …

Members of the audience listen to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speak at a town hall style campaign event at the Mississippi Farmer's Market in Jackson, Mississippi, on March …

Oil prices are now higher than they have ever been — except for a few frenzied moments before the global economic meltdown of 2008. Many immediate factors are contributing …

War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception are …

The drumbeat for war in Iran is getting louder, but opposition is coming from a seemingly unlikely source: the Cato Institute. This libertarian think tank generally sides with the …