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On September 18, 2009, seven former heads of the CIA publicly told President Barack Obama not to prosecute CIA torturers. On April 16, 2009, Obama had already publicly told …

(Photo: r0b0r0b / Flickr) The Wall Street bailout of 2008 has radically altered the banking business. The bailout was supposed to keep credit flowing to Main Street, …

How many nails does it require to forever whack down the coffin lid on European social democracy? It's a political tradition once animated by socialist principles, though in practice …

Anyone paying attention to the costs of U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan must have known that the president badly underestimated those numbers on June 22, when he …

We've long known that executive pay has skyrocketed during the last 40 years — and especially during the last 20. As the Economic Policy Institute has reported, the average …

Ginger McCall, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) joins Thom Hartmann. So much for using your I-phone to record concerts and sporting events. In order to stop people from posting …

Washington - The United States Supreme Court now sees its central task as comforting the already comfortable and afflicting those already afflicted. If you are a large …

(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: kitsu / Flickr) Seventeen-year-old Hillary Transue did what lots of 17-year-olds do: Got into mischief. Hillary's mischief was composing a MySpace …

Rep. Michele Bachmann gives an interview to Pajamas TV in front of a “Kill the Bill” sign after addressing the Tea Party crowd.(Photo: theqspeaks / Flickr)

Chicago - Minnesota began what is expected to become the broadest shutdown of state services in its history early Friday, after Republicans and Democrats there failed to agree on …