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Is Western Democracy coming apart at the seams? A decade ago, only paranoid alarmists would have posed that question. Today, it may be an expression of …

Does anyone really think that Standard & Poor's downgrade of US debt would have occurred unless there had been the Congressional stand-off on raising the debt ceiling? For all …

The shocking Cobb County, Georgia, prosecution of Raquel Nelson, who law enforcement blamed when her son was killed by a drunken hit-and-run driver, has drawn national headlines and outrage. …

Helene Cooper of the New York Times wrote a “news analysis” story saying that the challenge for President Obama is this: "Is he willing to …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has, to say the least, a very odd understanding of the Constitution. He thinks Texas should be able to opt out of Social Security, …

On May 6, a Central Intelligence Agency drone fired a volley of missiles at a pickup truck carrying nine militants and bomb materials through a desolate stretch of Pakistan …

There is nothing moral or just about the death penalty—certainly not the way it is implemented in America, and anyone who says otherwise is either deluding themselves or trying …

TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…

The deal worked out to allow a rise in the debt ceiling gives us our first real chance in more than a decade to make significant cuts to our …

We always hear that unions are in trouble. But that's not the whole story. While nearly one of every three American workers were union members in 1945, …