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Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office on Monday announced that it will close the country's 52 private security companies by year's end, a decision that could create …

As you encounter congressional candidates who are out vote-hunting, ask them a basic question: Will you promise to oppose any cuts to Social Security benefits, including increasing the retirement …

The reported success of the Obama-Netanyahu summit by the mainstream U.S. media overshadowed some recent important developments in the Middle East and the fears that the region is sinking …

The military has been trying to find the right way to provide better healthcare to women who serve, even introducing women-only clinics to provide additional support and access. Unfortunately, …

California Puts Same-Sex Marriages on Hold

Of the many lies George W. Bush told us about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some were larger but none worse than that told about the death of …

If independent-minded Web sites, like WikiLeaks or, say, Consortiumnews.com, existed 43 years ago, I might have risen to the occasion and helped save the lives of some 25,000 U.S. …

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman, in his column today, is right to expose the attacks on Social Security as being the work of right-wing ideologues eager …

The crazy conservative assault on government spending has become one of the most irrational economic policy debates in recent years. The Republican Party is trying to maintain the fiction …

The spectacle of terror and fear has developed a singular focus of communication and control.