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President Barack Obama speaks to employees at a Ford plant in Chicago on August 5, 2010. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) From the window …

When it comes to U.S. policy toward Iran, irony is the name of the game. Where to begin? The increasingly fierce sanctions that the Obama administration is …

This is the audio clip of an interview I did for The Breakdown this weekend with journalist and author Michael Hudson, who did a terrific piece on GE Capital's mortgage crisis called Fraud …

Khalid Salman, whose sister and children were killed in a 2005 incident with US Marines, at his family's cemetery where they are buried in Haditha, Iraq, on November 13, …

What will their future be – and what is the government’s proper financial role? (As published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.) The inherently symbiotic relationship …

There are 4,063,853 registered Republicans in Florida. But they are not spaced uniformly throughout the state, and they are not homogeneous demographically or ideologically. Florida’s Republican primary electorate is …

On Dec. 18, a dozen retirees, men and women in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, began occupying a median strip along Route 33 in front of the closed Century …

The Pentagon is currently charging US taxpayers approximately $1.9 million per minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year (366 in 2012). The American …

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), left, and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) at a news conference about the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington, on January 18, 2012. (Photo: …

The detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pictured on October 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The UK action charity Reprieve, whose attorneys …