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Alabama will not let the battle over its breathtakingly harsh anti-immigrant law, HB 56, be fought just in the courts. In a flurry of letters exchanged late …

The Solyndra debacle is proving an irresistible target for Republicans and their allies—especially as the election cycle gets underway. The conservative Americans for Prosperity, a group established …

It's no secret: Over the last year, state legislatures — largely those run by Republicans — have taken up and in many cases passed a series of laws that …

Niamey, Niger - It was January 2009, and Yaou Mahaman, a personable dark-skinned Tuareg tour guide from Niger, was coming off a lucrative week. His three car convoy carrying …

Rasha Azab leads a protest outside the military court in Cairo. (Photo: Sharif Abdel Kouddous. Egypt, 2011) One of …

US Ambassador to Iraq L. Paul Bremer III at Baghdad International Airport, February 23, 2004. (Photo: Zunzanyika/USAF/DOD) Look who is giving the Libyans advice on transitioning to …

Talk about piling on. Bill Gates, the Pope, Michael Moore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1,000 parliamentarians, 1,000 economists, the world's major labor leaders, Occupy Wall Street protesters, Oxfam and …

Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California. (Photo: naquah) Listening at last to his inner FDR, President Barack Obama is going straight at the Know-Nothing/Do-Nothing Republicans in Congress. …

“We need a wholesale revision of how a democracy both listens to and treats young people.”

Grand Rapids, Michigan - Like many states and local governments struggling to cut costs, Michigan hopes to replace some government employees with contract workers who will do the same …