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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in spite of all the talk about reform is pushing for fiscal adjustment around the world. The IMF argues overheating in the developing world, …

(Photo: COCOEN daily photos) A hundred and fifty years ago, the rich and the royal came from as far away as Europe and South America to Carthage, …

If you don't see yourself as the sort of person who calls your representatives in Congress and urges them to vote to end the war in Afghanistan, stand up …

It took the United States government nearly 10 years to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden in retribution for the September 11, 2001, attacks. Over that same period, …

Movements for justice have historically been driven by a small percentage of any population. One percent of Americans nonviolently occupying Washington DC, could make Cairo and Madison and Madrid …

Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Washington - Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the architect of his party's radical …

"There is only one person who should lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and that is the brilliant advocate who championed it, the remarkable administrator who has helped get …

For the past week, in anticipation of local elections this weekend (May 21-22), Spanish students and young people defied legal injunctions and held protests in the country’s major cities. …

President Obama is mulling an executive order to force big government contractors to disclose details of their political spending. Big businesses are already telling their political patrons in Congress …

Dear Reader, When it comes to upholding progressive American values, most of our institutions are in decline, if not already defunct. It’s pretty clear that we can’t …