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Washington - The right's atwitter — literally, in some cases — about President Obama's comment to Bob Woodward that America "can absorb a terrorist attack." This unobjectionable remark — …

Is America in the grip of a right-wing backlash that will hit the November elections like a hurricane? This narrative is gathering steam. It is fed not only by …

According to Mike Huckabee, people with pre-existing conditions are like houses that have already burned down.

Parents and students in Chicago occupying a school field house to protest its planned demolition have become a symbol of community resistance to blind budget cuts. More than 50 …

Attacks on Wikileaks are really an attack on free speech says its founder, Julian Assange. Scheduled for release in the next few weeks in concert with international and American …

GOP House Candidate Claims Muslims Want "Victory Mosque" Near Ground Zero

Dodgy voting systems; Luddite judges; stressed out, arrogant election staff - small wonder vote counts are often wrong. Half a Loaf in the Maricopa County, Arizona, Election Trial

Not every liberal is eager to mingle with the angry populists who are the face of the anti-Obama backlash that has taken over the airwaves, the Internet, and the …

Washington - While global food prices declined for the first half of this year, they have spiked in recent months, according to a new World Bank publication, and this …

Finally! The announced departure of Lawrence Summers as the president's top economic adviser is welcome news. Harvard's loss in taking back its $586,996-a-year professor and "president emeritus," who is …