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War at home is matched by a war on youth.

It's not every day a science fiction author is hired to write a presidential biography. But in 1997, I was asked to write one about the president of Croatia, …

(Photo: Woodrow Blettel / Sewanee: The University of the South) After a piece I wrote confronting Bill Gates and the market/corporate-based approach to education reform, I received …

(Photo: Robert Garcia / Flickr) Indigenous and campesino (small-scale farmer) movements in the Andean nation of Bolivia are on the verge of pushing through one of the …

Bradley Manning's Supporters Confront Obama

“The Americans have not been honest about this, even among themselves.” That's how Mullah Attullah Lodin, deputy chairman of the High Peace Council of Afghanistan, sees our …

There is no magic wand that will bring down the price of gasoline, which has once again crossed the $4 mark in California. But there is a long-term solution …

(Photo: Mel Green / Flickr) The street where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and …

Washington - Senator John Ensign of Nevada, the subject of an ethics investigation related to his affair with the wife of a former top aide, announced Thursday evening that …

For years we have read reports about the International Monetary Fund telling Mexico, Argentina, Greece, Lithuania, Russia ... whoever... to get their economic house in order. Invariably, these reports …