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Democrat Jerry Brown, the California attorney general and former two-term governor, and Republican Meg Whitman will face off this November in what is expected to be one of the …

Washington - Private security contractors protecting the convoys that supply U.S. military bases in Afghanistan are paying millions of dollars a week in “passage bribes” to the Taliban and …

My magic wand is on the fritz, otherwise we'd have a big, new federal program to free America from its dependence on oil. Like other environmentalists, I'm sad that …

It looks as if election-year strategies are trumping any actual problem-solving by Republican lawmakers. In the midst of one of the worst unemployment crises in U.S. history, Senate Republicans …

Washington - Joe Barton is not alone. The Texas congressman's lavish sympathy for BP — which he sees not as perpetrator of a preventable disaster but as victim of …

The recent Israeli raid on the flotilla bringing aid to Gaza — which resulted in the deaths of nine civilians, more injuries, and near-global condemnation for Israel's actions — …

The first intellectual consequence of the economic crisis was to undermine neoliberalism—or the belief in the sufficiency of markets to secure human welfare—as the age’s default ideology. The second …

Kabul - The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan was recalled to Washington on Tuesday after he was forced to make a “sincerest apology” over a magazine article in …

The title sounds a bit dated and strange. But the book’s message could scarcely be more contemporary.

The offshore oil drilling catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico brought to us by BP has overshadowed its central role over the past century in fostering some other disastrous …