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It’s easy for people involved in progressive political movements to be jaded by political discourse. One of the reasons why the Occupy movement has been interesting is that it …

Los Angeles - The steel-mesh fence went up around the perimeter of City Hall Park here early Wednesday morning. Behind it, fields of dirt and brown grass were covered …

Yesterday, a Deutsche Bank branch in Atlanta had requested the eviction of Vita Lee, a 103-year-old Atlanta woman, and her 83-year-old daughter. Both were terrified of being removed from …

Death of the Liberal Class is not a perfect book – Chris Hedges’ love for the classical and puritan tendencies mar the discussions of art and the internet, and …

Last week, I had a conversation with a man who runs his own trading firm. In the process of fuming about competition from Goldman Sachs, he said with resignation …

(Credit: Dobritz, France CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Alan Cowell had an interesting piece in The New York Times on Nov. 14 contrasting public …

More and more, one is struck by the extent to which the New York Times is disassociated from reality. One might judge the paper’s publishing of official falsehoods as …

Cairo - As several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) elect bodies to write new constitutions, women are looking to expand their rights through legislation. …

Seven years after the U.S. invasion of Fallujah, there are reports of an alarming rise in the rates of birth defects and cancer. But the crisis, and its possible …

After Thanksgiving, waistlines aren't the only things that are bloated—the Pentagon's top ranks are fattening at an alarming rate. Despite a plan set forth by former Secretary …