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The US national debt is the outstanding total of each year’s deficits in the federal government’s budgets (where deficit simply means the difference between federal expenditures and tax receipts). …

Washington - The House of Representatives voted Thursday 234-188 for a tax cut for the middle class and the poor — but not the very rich — a vote …

Well-versed in obstructing help to the hungry, House Republicans first blocked, then voted against the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act yesterday, a bill that “would give more needy children the …

The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head. Jonah Goldberg, contributor to the National Review, asks in his syndicated column, "Why wasn't …

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti — Michelle Altima spent all of election day trying to vote, trekking to three polling stations. Henry Emalack lined up at 6 a.m. only to find his …

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is reneging on pledges to support low-carbon economic models in Eastern Europe, and is instead ramping up its lending for fossil-fuel energy …

We always talk about “The American Dream” — about living it, saving it, wondering what happened to it. Few bother to define it. The stereotype shows a single-family house, …

Washington - Why did Republicans go to the trouble and expense of winning the midterm elections? It looks like they're about to prove, once again, that you can get …

Nuclear weapons treaties are like currency exchange rates — always vitally important to the national interest but often stunningly dull, not to say impenetrable. Yet Washington has suddenly been …