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(Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Exactly what the hell is going on around here? On Thursday, headlines on both the Washington Post and the …

Sudan is closest to civil war since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. Mariam Al Sadig, a leading figure in the Umma …

(Photo: USMARINE0311 / Flickr) President Barack Obama declared “nobody's above the law” in 2009, as Congress contemplated an investigation of torture authorized by the Bush administration. However, …

In a nation as politically and ideologically riven as ours, it’s remarkable to see so broad an agreement on what ails public schools. It’s the teachers. Democrats from various …

Three hundred economists released a letter to President Obama today with one message: focus on jobs, not on the deficit. Robert Borosage, co-director of the Institute for America's Future …

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Betty Ford, the outspoken and much-admired wife of President Gerald R. Ford who overcame alcoholism and an addiction to pills and helped found one of the best-known rehabilitation centers …

Although specifics have yet to officially emerge, there is little doubt that among the Social Security benefit cuts the President is proposing will be a reduction in Social Security’s …

A new analysis of poll data about the Affordable Care Act from 2009 to 2010 finds that public support for health reform may be higher and more consistent than …

Antigovernment protesters demonstrate in Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, February 20, 2011. (Photo: Lynsey Addario / The New York Times) An unlikely alliance is the latest obstacle …