Op-Ed

In the debt-ceiling debate Republicans are holding the country hostage again, demanding that the country shift to a radical pro-big-corporate/big-wealth agenda as the ransom. At the same time the …

On September 18, 2009, seven former heads of the CIA publicly told President Barack Obama not to prosecute CIA torturers. On April 16, 2009, Obama had already publicly told …

How many nails does it require to forever whack down the coffin lid on European social democracy? It's a political tradition once animated by socialist principles, though in practice …

Anyone paying attention to the costs of U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan must have known that the president badly underestimated those numbers on June 22, when he …

We've long known that executive pay has skyrocketed during the last 40 years — and especially during the last 20. As the Economic Policy Institute has reported, the average …

Washington - The United States Supreme Court now sees its central task as comforting the already comfortable and afflicting those already afflicted. If you are a large …

Washington - The skies over at least six countries are patrolled by robotic aircraft, operated by the U.S. military or the CIA, that fire missiles to carry out targeted …

Yeah, it gets better. But what about when some armored tank with ears is escorting you, face first, into your locker or a ditch? Or some charm-challenged …

(Image: Sony Pictures) Lately, it seems, Hollywood has been drilling deep for the bottom of the barrel of mediocrity. The official consensus goes: at the turn of …

With continued threats coming from Israel, a complaint traced to an Israeli organization aimed at docking the US boat indefinitely, and the reported sabotage of another flotilla ship, the …