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Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan soldiers and police say the recent burning of Qurans by U.S. personnel has seriously undermined their trust in their American counterparts, suggesting that the decade-long …

From corporate whistleblowers to Army refuseniks, a new book, “Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times,” explores what compels ordinary people …

After a stretch of economic expansion so weak that Main Street struggled to detect any improvement, three consecutive months of solid employment growth have begun to lift the mood …

Polit­ical pundi­ts have specu­lated about the possi­bilit­y of anoth­er presi­denti­al candi­date enter­ing the Novem­ber race.­ (Damon Winte­r / The New York Times­) I haven’t written …

President Obama has a historic opportunity to help reform the World Bank, by nominating development expert Jeffrey Sachs to be the World Bank's next president. Sachs has said that …

Thom Hartmann here – on the news… You need to know this. Rejected!  Democrats in the Senate yesterday beat back an attempt by Republicans to have the Keystone XL …

Today’s Super Tuesday primary involves 10 states and 437 delegates at stake for the Republican Party’s presidential prospects. There are two states among that crop that are worth taking …

Americans sometimes wonder how the nation’s political process got so unspeakably nasty with vitriol pouring forth especially from right-wing voices like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage, to …

We live in a world today where one billion people– that is one in every seven people on the planet – are undernourished. At the same time, more than …