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In 2007, Governor Rick Perry shocked both public health officials and his conservative base when he signed an executive order mandating that female students in Texas be vaccinated against …

More than a quarter of a million security contractors have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002, and between them they have managed to “lose” at least $31 …

Following up on yesterday’s column about corporate spending, I saw that John Coates (Harvard Law School) and Taylor Lincoln (Public Citizen) have published a study of the relationship between …

Protesters demonstrate in San Francisco, California on June 10, 2009. California lawmakers are considering the establishment of a state-owned bank as a response to the state's ongoing budget problems. …

Her touch was gentler than anything I'd ever felt before - a tiny hand resting on my upper back. Standing in the middle of a tightly packed audience at …

Nine-eleven's ten-year anniversary is sparking retrospectives ranging from lives lost to a War on Terror launched. But media accounts have omitted an important political casualty: the short-lived “anti-globalization” movement, …

Americans respected the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. with silence, reverence, retrospection. Sept. 11, 2001, changed the world as we knew it, …

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The UN Palmer Report, which largely exonerated Israel for murdering nine unarmed Turkish civilians in international waters on May 31, 2010, seemed in some ways like the last straw. …

Almost all the factual findings, as well as the legal analysis and conclusions of the recently leaked UN Secretary General’s Panel of Inquiry into the “Flotilla Incident” on May …