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Washington - As the city of Homs shuddered Thursday from another day of Syrian army bombardments, U.N. investigators held regime officials and military commanders “at the highest levels” responsible …

A Bank of America building in San Francisco. (Photo: Michele Ursino / Flickr) Washington, DC - Among the fundamental principles of any functioning justice system is …

Verso Books recently inaugurated a series it calls “Counterblasts,” which “aims to revive the tradition of polemical writing inaugurated by Puritan and leveller pamphleteers in the seventeenth century.” Its …

Sen. Rick Santorum speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 17, 2011. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) “Santorum's hopes may be dashed,” read Rosalind S. …

President Barack Obama, joined by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, Feb. 10, 2012. (Photo: Stephen …

Surely Rick Santorum is the most fanatical Christian to run for the Republican nomination in the modern era, maybe any era. Next to him, Pat Robertson, billionaire founder of …

In a decision that could set a national precedent for how local governments can regulate gas drilling, a New York state court yesterday ruled for the first time that …

Washington - They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn't, he's a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he's a Nazi, …

Washington - We've heard this quickening drumbeat before. Last time, it led to the tragic invasion and occupation of Iraq. This time, if we let the drummers provoke us …

Pacific Steel workers march through Berkeley. (Photo: David Bacon) Berkeley, California - Two hundred immigrant workers, their wives, husbands, children and hundreds of supporters marched through downtown …