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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is asking the USDA to approve a pilot program that would prevent his city's residents from buying sugar-sweetened soda with food stamps. Some …

As more and more documents become available from Wikileaks, the public has gotten a novel and close up view of U.S. diplomats and their operations abroad. I was particularly …

Washington - A sharply divided US Supreme Court on Tuesday confronted the thorny issue of how best to improve the quality of medical and mental health care in California’s …

House Republicans are demanding that General Petraeus appear in person to testify on the administration's December review of policy in the war in Afghanistan, Politico reports. But the Pentagon …

The webcast is scheduled from 1:00PM until 3:00PM Eastern. Discussants Responding to December 1st Fiscal Commission Report: Joseph Stiglitz Dean Baker Nancy Altman John Irons Robert Kuttner

Howard Zinn, probably the most influential American historian ever, had an amazing sense of humor when he lectured or met people in person. He could make fun of himself …

The Citizens' Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America's Economic Future, a grassroots coalition of labor leaders and economists, on Tuesday released its own recommendations for cutting the deficit. In …

The Senate's passage of the Food Safety Act, the most sweeping food-safety law in 70 years has thrown a spotlight on the US food supply. Here are five of …

Information is the currency of democracy. -Thomas Jefferson Since 9/11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that "state …