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(Photo: photosteve101 / Flickr) Standard & Poor's downgrades US debt, stock markets gyrate around the world, Sarkozy and Merkel perform yet another empty summit, the Chinese and …

At the heart of Gandhi’s revolution was a new kind of hero: brave, but also compassionate; bold, but also empathetic; powerful, but also unarmed. For millennia, traditional heroism had …

And so begins again the Herculean task of wrapping my poor, abused mind around yet another crop of Faustian caricatures.

This just in: The folks at Maplight have released some disturbing numbers on who has been the most generous to the 12 members of the newly-formed Joint Select Committee …

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation Teachers, testifies at a hearing about supporting America’s educators on May 4, 2010. (Photo: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Dem …

Zawiyah, Libya — Rebel fighters claimed complete control of a sprawling oil refinery in this coastal town on Thursday, seizing one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s most important assets after …

Washington - It's hard to argue with President Obama's call for Bashar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty Syrian dictator, to step down. But it's also hard to discern any logic or …

Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and Republican presidential candidate. (Photo: Erich Schlegel / The New York Times.) Texas has been adding jobs faster than the rest …

Washington - When 20-year-old Isaura Garcia called the 911 emergency hotline while being physically abused by her partner, she never imagined that her plea to U.S. legal authorities would …

Peter Haller, now a congressional staffer, was previously known as Peter Simonyi when he served as a VP to Goldman Sachs. (Photo: bbrslaw.com) Has Rep. Darrell Issa …