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Washington - “Why don't they fight back?” That's the question I've been hearing from the Democratic Party's stunned and dispirited base. For the past month, I've been on a …

Senator Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles appeared to have largely ignored economic reality in developing the proposals they presented to the public today. The country is suffering from 9.6 …

We have just begun the tenth year of occupation in Afghanistan. Despite the declared “end” to combat operations, American soldiers are still dying in Iraq as encounters with insurgents …

Part of a Triple Crisis series leading up to the Nov. 11-12 G-20 meetings.

Global temperatures are projected rise 3.5 degrees C. over the next 25 years, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, meaning that governments worldwide will have failed in their pledge …

After MSNBC suspended Keith Olbermann from “Countdown” for making contributions to political campaigns, activists and pundits on both sides of the aisle used the occasion to speak out on …

New York - Putting local police on the “front lines” of immigration enforcement is distracting federal agencies from their objectives by turning over people with no criminal history, or …

In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that he authorized that detainees be waterboarded, tortured, a …

I’m finding it difficult to write about the recent foreclosure mess in the United States. Amid the revelations in October that so many mortgage lenders might have been sloppy …

Pentagon Study Shows Repealing “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” Is Not Dangerous