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San, Juan, Puerto Rico - President Barack Obama will break a 50-year record Tuesday, when he becomes the first president since John F. Kennedy to come to San Juan …

A statue of Lady Justice. (Photo: Vassilena ) In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the …

Wisconsin Sen. Fred Risser. (Photo: Dave Hoefler) Fred Risser is a veteran Wisconsin state senator. Actually, he is the longest-serving state legislator in American political history. Bald …

In an astonishing observation, Rep. Paul Ryan recently declared: “Washington has not been honest with you.” Gosh, Paul, that possibility never occurred to us! What …

[A longer version of this essay appears in “Food,” the Summer 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] …

“Have you heard anything along that line?” Rajaratnam asked Gupta. “Yeah,” Gupta responded. “This was a big discussion at the board meeting.” -The Associated Press, May 12, 2011

Javier Sicilia. (Photo: David Leonardo Gonzalez / Flickr) In an interview with Americas Program director Laura Carlsen, Javier Sicilia called on the U.S. government to change its …

A couple looks out at Cairo from al-Azhar park, February 15, 2011. (Photo: Scott Nelson / The New York Times) Cairo - In the months since Egyptian …

(Photo: Mark Ramsay / Flickr) Class struggle is like gravity: we can recognize it only through its effects. When apples or wages fall, the forces of mass …

(Photo: Joseph Cote / Flickr) As the ‘great recession’ continues, Economist Richard Wolff says failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different name. Now …