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(Photo: espensorvik / Flickr) A lot of the cynical hopelessness in progressive media and cyberspace these days is about the private money corruption machine that dominates American …

Note from the author: Philosophy Now magazine runs an occasional contest: Write an answer to a philosophical question in 400 words or fewer. The winning essays are printed in …

(Photo: Justen Eason / Flickr) The Occupy Wall Street movement has raised the slogan of “We are the 99 percent” and coined the catchphrase that articulates the …

Washington - Roughly 3,000 unemployed workers from around the country are expected in the nation's capitol next week for four days of protests with labor, religious and social justice …

Cairo - Islamists appear poised for a landslide victory in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, putting them on track to secure a majority in the country's first …

The new One Bank of America Center in Charlotte, N.C., April 11, 2011. (Photo: Chris Keane / The New York Times) Do you know who Elizabeth Duke …

Finding a job is hard enough for the many millions of unemployed American workers. But, believe it or not, the fact that they are jobless keeps many employers from …

Paul Singer. (Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr) Last Monday, a call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney's billionaire backer …

Javier Del Bosque waits with his family at the Toys “R” Us in Times Square, in time for its 9 p.m. opening, in New York, November 24, 2011. (Photos: …

Last night, I saw the power of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) at Lincoln Center Plaza, a public space that activists were barricaded by the New York Police Department (NYPD) …