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President Obama announced on Monday that he had reached a deal with Republicans to extend tax cuts for all Americans, including the wealthiest two percent - backtracking on one …

More tax breaks for the rich in exchange for another year's worth of unemployment benefits for the desperate: Now there's a compromise that makes me proud to be an …

 

Washington - Ben Bernanke may or may not succeed in saving the economy, but at least he has the courage to try — and the honesty to tell the …

In this special comment, Professor Richard D. Wolff explains exactly why President Obama is not a socialist.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.…Whenever the people are well-informed, they can …

Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be …

Cancun, Mexico - Further delay in international action to slow warming would endanger vast numbers of lives in the world's poorest countries, but Cancun can still deliver decisive progress …

Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion – excluding Arab East Jerusalem – should go down as one of the most …

DREAM Act in Jeopardy