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Ivory Coast President May Surrender As fighters surrounded Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo's bunker Tuesday, the country's leader attempted to negotiate the terms of his surrender, according …

A man stands near burning tires on a street in Treichville, a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on March 8, 2011. Militia loyal to strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses …

For once, some good news: public support for free trade will almost certainly collapse over the next few years. On this issue, the public is way ahead of …

(Image: Wiley-Blackwell) The words, “I told you so” sometimes brings guilty pleasure when uttered to your teenager or under your breath to a spouse. Uttering those words …

President Barack Obama records his weekly address from a UPS customer center as part of the new public-private Green Fleet Partnership, April 1, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White …

If you don’t think American workers are being inexorably scr*wed by our governing establishment’s embrace of “free” trade, stop reading right here. If you do, I have a …

In a surprise announcement early this morning, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize for Economics (strictly speaking: “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory …

The Republicans are poised to unveil a model budget on Tuesday that would effectively end Medicare by privatizing it, Steve Benen reports in the Washington Monthly. House Budget Committee …

Back in the late 1980s, when I lived in a little town in rural Upstate New York called Spencer, I joined the local library board, eventually ending up through …