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For 76 years domestic workers have been excluded from federal labor law—from overtime and safety and health protections in addition to collective bargaining rights. The exclusion was …

President Barack Obama talks on the phone while aboard Air Force One. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Within the past month, the Obama administration has heard …

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling …

The Army is keeping mum on whether the Army sergeant who went on a rampage in Afghanistan has ever been evaluated or asked for evaluation for PTSD, but it …

Coming as it did in time for International Women’s Day, the decision of legislators in Virginia, to require women seeking an abortion to undergo a vaginal probe and see …

David Koch. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) On Saturday, the tiny EU nation Slovakia held parliamentary elections, and the results surprised the “experts”: The …

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A Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant worker grinds a metal support stand. (Photo: ACWA / Flickr) "When I graduated from Muncie Central High School, you could go …

A state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, greets the crowd at his election night party in Lafayette, Louisiana, on March 13, 2012. (Photo: Tony …