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(Photo: Amanda Slater / Flickr) As part of its expanding counterterrorism program in Somalia, the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia’s …

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation requiring public schools to teach students about the contributions of gay and lesbian people, making California the first state to adopt such …

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Bill Moyers, broadcast journalist, and author of “Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues” talks with Rachel Maddow …

Those words suggest President Obama has had it up to here with the preening and posturing of Republican “negotiators” who won't negotiate. Who could blame him? Obama's …

Dwellers in Circleville's “Hooverville,” central Ohio (credit: Ben Shahn, 1938). I recently picked up a copy of Lionel Robbins’s 1934 book “The Great Depression” in a used …

President Barack Obama meets with Congressional leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), in the White House to discuss ongoing efforts to cut the federal deficit, in Washington, …

David H. Koch, one of the billionaire brothers who runs Koch Industries, at the Lincoln Center in New York, in this July 9, 2008 file photo. (Photo: Robert Caplin …

Media reform activists recently won several crucial victories in the battle to free the nation's radio channels from corporate control and, thanks to their efforts, grassroots groups across the …

It’s been two weeks since a group of inmates in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit stopped eating. Their hunger strike was launched to protest conditions in solitary …

What did the President do in response to last week’s horrendous job report — unemployment rising to 9.2 percent in June, with only 18,000 new jobs (125,000 are needed …