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A new AFL-CIO report shows that more than 13,000 of the truly heroic firefighters, police, and other rescuers who were the first to rush to the scene of the …

US-led forces in Afghanistan sure did a bang-up job this week at promoting the concept of Western “democracy.”

Havana, Cuba - A major shakeup is coming to this communist-run island over the next six months, as the Cuban government plans to slash state payrolls by 500,000 workers …

Any rigorous conception of youth must take into account the inescapable intersection of the personal, social, political and pedagogical embodied by young people.

At long last, good news. Fifteen years have passed since wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and the results are in. The controversial experiment has been a stellar …

Washington - The US-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were handed a reprieve Monday when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would not decide for one week whether to quit the …

“The Friends of Israel Initiative.” It sounds innocent enough. Hey, I'm a friend of Israel too. But with “Friends” like these - an international network of hard-core neoconservatives - …

Washington - Nicholas Marsh, who was one of several Justice Department officials under investigation for the flawed 2008 prosecution of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, killed himself this weekend. …

Here's a fact that even drug policy reform advocates can acknowledge: California's 2010 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana does, indeed, pose a real threat, as conservative culture warriors insist. …

“When creative statesmanship wanes, irrational militarism increases.” [1] The decision by Barack Obama to run for the Presidency in the United States in 2007 has unleashed a …