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Washington - The revelation by Wikileaks of a U.S. military order directing U.S. forces not to investigate cases of torture of detainees by Iraqis has been treated in news …

New York Times Los Angeles bureau chief Adam Nagourney can't seem to figure out why the latest polls in California show that Republicans Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, a …

This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That — and where to go from here — will be …

Austerity economics has won in Europe. But there is a mythology traveling around that the U.S., at least, has retained the Keynesian orientation that helped cut short an economy …

It has been said and rightly so, history has a way of repeating itself. The British philosopher Edmund Burk said, "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat …

Washington - Watch Virginia and West Virginia as the early election returns come in Tuesday night. Then keep an eye on South Carolina. Of states where polls close first, …

Ravens have been the subject of myths throughout human history, sometimes pictured with wolves, sometimes just exalted by themselves as wise and mystical. Looking like five-pound crows, they are …

Today is the first election in American history in which corporations have been allowed to spend their own money to buy political favors. This legalized corruption comes courtesy of …

By the time you read this, I’ll already have voted — the single most reflexive political act of my life — in the single most dispiriting election I can …

I admit it. 2008 was a whole lot more fun. We were riding a wave of change. We had the political momentum. We reached into states and districts we …