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"Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied …

Actress Anne Hathaway marches with demonstrators on the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Elana Levin) If the US fought for the post-carbon economy the way …

A recent New York Times op-ed by Dowell Myers argues that we need to shift from an “immigration policy,” focused on border enforcement, to an “immigrant policy” focused on the integration …

The voting systems in use for the nation's first three all-important electoral contests in the 2012 primary —- from Iowa to New Hampshire to Saturday's South Carolina Primary —- …

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo: Andrew Burton / The New York Times) Many people on Wall Street are befuddled. After all, a private equity firm creating …

Newt Gingrich looks to be winning the race-baiting competition this Republican primary season. Fueled by a new version of his well honed attacks on the safety net, Gingrich celebrated …

(Photo: JasonUnbound / Flickr) Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of …

All of the laborers I saw in the Rayburn House Office Building during Occupy the Congress; all of the people delivering mail through its dark, wood doors adorned with …

Dr. LeRoy Carhart comforts a patient after a procedure at an abortion clinic. (Photo: Brian Lehmann / The New York Times) As prochoice activists gear up to …

The spikes in global food prices in 2007-8 served as a wake-up call to the global community on the inadequacies of our global food system. Commodity prices doubled, …