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Among the most revealing aspects of life during the Obama presidency is the panoply of responses to a black family in the White House. What made so many of …

I guess I was naïve in thinking that The Atlantic and its American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg might shy away from arguing for yet another war - this one with …

South Sudan - When Timothy was forced into the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) at age 11, the first thing they did was beat him. Then they took …

Americans will learn to love health care reform, just as they did Social Security, if it’s made to work for all of them. At the heart of the right-wing …

Washington - The Republican Party's candidate for governor of Colorado believes that bicycle paths are "part of a greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations …

Military-ruled Burma (Myanmar) announced it will hold its first elections in 20 years this Nov. 7. But the road ahead is far from certain, as new political parties struggle …

Largely neglected by the Bush administration, Yemen has become a key priority for the Obama administration.

A federal judge lifted a temporary stay preventing same-sex couples in California from getting legally married, but gay couples cannot be married yet - the stay will remain in …

Dauphin Island, Alabama - BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say …

After President Obama announced back in February that his administration would provide $8.3 billion in taxpayer-financed loan guarantees to the Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors at …