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Widespread reports about “robo-signers” — bank officials who would sign foreclosure forms without even reading them — have lead many business reporters to dub the crisis of potentially illegal …

Editor's Note: When President George W. Bush authorized waterboarding and other forms of torture on “war on terror” detainees, the patterns of abusive treatment and the gauging of physiological …

Washington - The Pentagon Thursday halted enforcement of its “don't ask, don't tell” policy pending an appeal of a federal court order prohibiting the government from expelling gays and …

President Harry S. Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 to ensure that the policy community would have access to independent intelligence analysis that was free of the …

Thanks to bad policies and bad ideas, the world’s advanced economies seem set to experience a prolonged period — maybe even a lost decade — of weak growth, high …

What's the connection between the personhood of a fertilized egg and the personhood of corporations? Both can and will undermine the fundamental rights of women. On January 21st of …

Former detainees held and interrogated during the past year at a notorious secret jail near the US Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan told human rights investigators that they were …

Rachel Maddow reveals the history of the Chamber of Commerce advocating the business benefits of outsourcing American jobs even as they spend millions of dollars accusing Democratic candidates of …

It's a rather ordinary, run-of-the-mill piece of Israeli government propaganda - an op-ed in The New York Times, October 14, by Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. …

Washington - The rule of law - a critical element of good governance – thrives best in Sweden, the Netherlands and in several other wealthy nations but is sorely …