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Senate Republicans have unveiled their new Jobs Through Growth Act. This time it's different. Read on and see why. Bill Scher, in this morning's News To Media: …

The Federal Reserve Board has provided the basis for thousands of conspiracy theories in its near 100-year existence. These conspiracies have some basis in reality as can be seen …

Longshore workers on the Columbia River caught everyone's attention three weeks ago when they blocked a move by a multinational grain consortium that threatened their union and their jobs. …

A body at a crime scene, which has become a regular part of daily life, in an alley in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, January 25, 2011. (Photo: Katie Orlinsky / …

Some people's only exposure to nihilism comes from the German gang in The Big Lebowski who said things like “We are nihilists, we believe in nothing” and "Tell us …

In a quiet corner across the street from Zuccotti Park, a cluster of 25 solemn-faced protesters struggled one night to give Occupy Wall Street what critics have found to …

After my post on Corey Robin’s new book, a friend recommended Albert O. Hirschman’s Rhetoric of Reaction. As the title suggests, the book is about the rhetorical style of conservative …

Protesters from the J14 Movement in Israel, September 3, 2011. (Photo: Eli Brody) Over the past several months, there has been a huge wave of ongoing protest …

Ten years after promising that human rights would be protected in Afghanistan, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has verified “systemic torture” by Afghan security forces trained and …

They looked like a small army. Just a few short blocks from Liberty Plaza, where a four-week occupation has spawned the beginnings of a new mini-society, the opposition was …