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I have been writing about the Tea Party, and asking what they will do if/when the DC Republicans betray them.. CAF has set up a page for the Tea …

Republicans and Democrats can today agree on little, yet when Rahm Emanuel strategized that "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste", many Republicans must have heartily concurred. To …

Myitsone, Burma - A pro-junta party appears set to win Sunday's multiparty election in Burma (Myanmar) which was fraught with irregularities and omissions. For the country's ethnic minorities, the …

Leogane, Haiti - Standing on a raised piece of pavement across from the makeshift home where she has lived for the past 10 months, Violet Nicola threw up her …

During the mass unemployment of the Great Depression, Keynes once quipped that if we couldn't find any productive work that needed to be done, in order to reduce unemployment …

Last week, Iraqi security forces arrested two employees of Baghdadiya, a major television network, accused them of working with terrorists to shut down the station’s power. Security officials said …

Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calmly assessing the political cyclone that just two days earlier had routed her Democratic majority and will, at least temporarily, force her …

The Democrats did good. Not in the election — they did pretty miserably there. But they did good for the country. They led America back from the brink of …

Death Panels. Witchcraft. Birthers. Islamophobes. Tea partiers. Obama text messages. Palin robo-calls. TV commercial after TV commercial after TV commercial. And now, at the end of this $4 billion …

Republican leaders in both the House and the Senate said Sunday there would be no compromise with Democrats on whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest …