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Andrew Bacevich on Bill Moyers Journal. (Photo: Bill Moyers Journal) Our finest warriors are often our most reluctant warmongers. They have seen firsthand the toll war …

The zombie metaphor points dramatically to a kind of “mad agency that is power in a new form, death-in-life.”

THE ‘S’ WORD: A SHORT HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN TRADITION… SOCIALISM by John Nichols Verso, 2011 Just when the confused and often deeply troubled relation …

About 80 percent of Dr. Rachel Chatters’s patients in Louisiana are on Medicaid. (Photo: Michael Stravato for the New York Times) So Representative Paul D. Ryan, the …

Last year New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie diverted an estimated $65 million from the state's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) revenues to help balance a $10.7 billion budget. …

The Special Inspector General for the Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR,) established by Congress in 2008 to evaluate the efficiency of reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, has issued a glowing report on …

Keeping up with the real news can be difficult today—especially since those who provide us with the “news” often deliver entertainment packaged as news. In this way, what passes …

War on Drugs Has Failed

MENLO PARK, Calif.—Leni Haunga, an immigrant from Tonga, said that without the childcare services she had received at a homeless shelter, her family would not have gotten back on …

The news took a turn for the worse in 2005 when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer began broadcasting from The Situation Room, a simulation of the legendary presidential techno-bunker. Most recently, …