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This is deficit-fest week with President Obama's deficit commission scheduled to have its big public kickoff on Tuesday, followed by an all-day affair sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson …

The genius of American conservatives over the last 30 years has been their understanding that the most effective way to change the country is to change the terms of …

It was a small news item in Politico, but one that unwittingly revealed the truth behind one of the most persistent myths about the anti-choice movement, which is that …

Yes, we could. No kidding. We really could withdraw our massive armies, now close to 200,000 troops combined, from Afghanistan and Iraq (and that’s not even counting our similarly …

Rome - The case of the three Italians arrested this month on suspicion of trying to assassinate a southern Afghan governor concluded with a happy ending of sorts and …

  WASHINGTON — In an internal e-mail released Saturday, Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein wrote in November 2007 that the firm “didn't dodge the mortgage mess,” but "made …

[UPDATE: Saturday 7:30 pm ET. Senator John Kerry said the announcement of the bill, expected Monday, had been “postponed only temporarily.” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said earlier on Saturday …

There is a myth in wide circulation that the superiority of free trade is simply a settled question on which all serious economists agree. The flip side of this …

One percent of US households received 23.5 percent of the nation's income in 2007. I think this is blatantly excessive and unfair. Their contribution to the nation's prosperity was …

One interesting nugget found in newly released CIA documents related to the destruction of 92 torture tapes concerns the unreported existence of psychologist's notes as a standard part of …