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(Photo: Tim Musson / Flickr) Probably few of the Americans who heard Martin Luther King preach his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the …

Washington, DC – Participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement are right to argue that the big banks have never properly been investigated for the mortgage origination, aggregation, and …

For years, Yan endured brutal beatings and repeated rapes at the hands of her husband. An undocumented immigrant from Asia, she never called the police out of fear that …

Demonstrators are served lunch at the makeshift food center at the Occupy Wall Street protest. (Photo: Robert Caplin / The New York Times) "The process is the …

Washington - While a growing number of influential voices here and in the region insist that the nearly 20-year, U.S.-sponsored “peace process” has reached its terminal phase, the administration …

(Photo: LifeSupercharger / Flickr) The economic crash led to the loss of 9 million jobs and the biggest drop in American home-ownership since the Great Depression.

President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference about the Iraq troop withdrawal in the White House briefing room in Washington, October 21, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / …

Occupy Wall Street: Day 1, September 17, 2011. (Photo: luddista) On October 1, 2011, seven residents of the Washington, DC area came together for the founding assembly …

Conservatives are always pushing for a “flat tax.” It sounds so simple: One easy rate, so we all pay the same, easy to calculate... Get rid of deductions and …

(Photo: Andrew Bossi / Flickr) Among the demands of the Wall Street protesters is student debt forgiveness - a debt “jubilee.” Occupy Philly has a "Student Loan …