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Eric Alterman is thoughtful and eloquent as he describes progressive disappointments with Obama's first eighteen months in the presidency and probes the huge obstacles to progressive change built into …

Havana - After more than a century of existence, feminism is still around in Latin America and the world, but the history of this ideology that seeks equality for …

Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as little as $12 …

Gaza City - Just off Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City's main thoroughfare, in a narrow, sandy alley way is a little second-hand clothing shop. In the dimly lit store, …

Canadian citizen Omar Khadr is now facing trial via a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Khadr is accused of throwing a hand grenade, which killed a US soldier …

Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Agree to Direct Talks

“Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” was former non-Sen. Al Franken's 2003 examination of the lies and distortions of right-wing pundits and politicians. Such a book, if …

Karen Nausbamm, the director of the AFL-CIO's Working America, has a penchant for pointing out that the AFL-CIO is the largest women's organization in the country. In fact, the …

A plume of oil some 700 feet thick and at least 21 miles long has been detected deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico. It originated at the Deepwater Horizon …