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Washington - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to limit debate on the White House/Republican tax-cut deal, a test vote that virtually assures Senate passage in a day or two …

In the US Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander Gen. David Petraeus describes Afghanistan as a “war of perception … conducted continuously using the news media.” What really …

Washington - The most important legacy of the WikiLeaks affair will almost surely be the rapidly escalating cyberwar that the group's renegade disclosures have sparked. If you think you're …

Some battles in American history and politics never end, at least in terms of passionate public argument. The Civil War. The Vietnam War. Abortion. The Red Sox and the …

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of …

Since E.D. Hirsch failed in his noble jihad to enforce Cultural Literacy, I can't assume readers are familiar with the scene in “Annie Hall” in which Woody Allen stops …

I stood with hundreds of thousands of rebellious Czechoslovakians in 1989 on a cold winter night in Prague’s Wenceslas Square as the singer Marta Kubišová approached the balcony of …

A federal judge in Virginia dealt the first major legal blow against the Obama administration's health care reform law on Monday, setting the stage for a final showdown over …

Democrats of all stripes have been so focused on details of policy that they have surrendered public political discourse to conservatives, and with it the key to the nation's …

Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New …