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Cairo - Egyptian soldiers who were sent to crack down on lawlessness in the North Sinai Desert killed a man in a gunfight on Monday and captured a dozen …

The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected …

(Image: JR / Truthout) There’s a side to regulation that most people don’t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the …

The race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination heated up this weekend as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll and Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally announced …

(Image: Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Standard & Poor’s has gone ahead with the threatened downgrade of the United States’ credit rating. It’s …

During the recent “Debt Ceiling” debacle, many warned that the failure to lift the debt ceiling would lead to a “first ever” US default and to numerous financial catastrophes, …

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) thanks her supporters after winning the Iowa straw poll of Republican presidential candidates in Ames, Iowa, Aug. 13, 2011. Bachmann's high-intensity, Tea …

The discussion raised lately by this column, shakeups in corporate comics and general ongoing frustrations in the world of lady drawers has hinged largely on why there have been …

The Koch brothers have more than $42 billion to make public policy out of their anti-government ideology, and their assault against public education epitomizes their tactics to remake our …