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2012 presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty (R) yesterday laid out his economic “plan,” which is based around huge tax cuts that Pawlenty claims will spark a decade of 5 percent …

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Yemeni opposition leaders and protesters intensified their demands on Wednesday for the creation of a presidential council that would take power from the country’s …

Delta Charges Returning Soldiers for Baggage Soldiers returning home from Afghanistan said they had to pay Delta Air Lines $2,800 in out-of-pocket fees to check their extra …

Rakhat Aliyev, the former son-in-law of Kazakstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev. (Photo: Evstafiev / Wikimedia) It has all the twists of a Hollywood blockbuster: shadowy international figures, a …

Elected officials need to do a better job of asking the right questions before they make a decision that we'll live with for decades. Too often, a …

It may be a first in the annals of government secrecy: Declassifying documents to mark the anniversary of their leak to the press. But that is what will happen …

Bill Moyers, July 21, 1965. (Photo: Yoichi Okamoto / Wikimedia)

Malalai Joya. (Photo: AfghanKabul / Flickr) Malalai Joya is an Afghan activist, author and former politician. She served as an elected member of the 2003 Loya Jirga …

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) How I wish that Ben Bernanke would get caught emailing photos of his underwear-clad …