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Washington - While lawmakers and the president scrap over deficit reduction and jobs plans, they're largely overlooking one of the biggest drags on employment and a major cause of …

Hurricane Irene caused flooding in Paterson, New Jersey. (Photo: Fred R.Conrad / The New York Times) Steve Landsburg, the author and economics professor at the University of …

Washington - Now it can be told: A prominent gay rights advocate who called himself J. D. Smith is in fact 1st Lt. Josh Seefried, a 25-year-old active-duty Air …

Austin - Texas Tea Party leaders, challenging Gov. Rick Perry to dispel doubts about his stance on illegal immigration, demanded Monday that he call lawmakers back to work to …

Surt, Libya - During lulls between mortar and rocket barrages, hundreds of civilians fled this coastal city on Monday after five days of fierce clashes between fighters loyal to …

(Actually, it was on Saturday.) I just read Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W.W. Norton, 2009), by Kim Phillips-Fein. It’s …

Nebraska is one of just two states which allocates its Electoral College votes by congressional district — a fact that enabled President Obama to win one electoral vote in …

Washington - “Class warfare!” scream the Republicans, in a voice usually reserved for phrases such as “Run for your lives!” Spare us the histrionics. The GOP and …

(Image: Chelsea Green) It was a warm Thursday afternoon on August 5, 2010, in a remote woodland of the Hindu Kush mountains when a band of men …

To My Closest of Friends President and Professor Barack Obama, I send this missive to you with deepest urgency. My embarrassment at importuning you in any …