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Washington - The Bush-era tax cuts that are set to expire on Dec. 31 are expected to be extended temporarily by the lameduck Congress, with a two-year extension the …

Washington - In 2008, the largest number of voters in American history gave the Democrats their largest share of the presidential vote in 44 years and big majorities in …

Julian Assange's Wikileaks of many thousands of secret documents will go down in history as courageous and heroic – like Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Secret Pentagon Papers during …

“Beep, beep!” I turned around in the hospital corridor and faced a kind of traveling file cabinet molded out of plastic. No one pushed it. Two lights flashed on …

Chicago - Happy Meals in San Francisco are about to become a little less happy, and my smile has been super-sized. Not because I don't love Happy Meals. On …

Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, today released their draft proposal for reducing the country's budget deficit. The …

It takes a Harvard MBA to raze an economy. Perhaps that is too narrow a judgment given that a law degree from that institution or from Yale University seems …

The bible-thumping white underclass have given a big boost to the corporate bottom line. Tens of millions of American voters got duped badly in the 2010 election. The bible-thumping …

But current technology can reduce ship pollution 90%, and a House committee is weighing law to reduce black carbon emissions. In the next few decades, a warming Arctic will …

Remember what Vice President Biden told Jonathan Alter in “The Promise”? At the conclusion of an interview in his West Wing office, Biden was adamant. "In July of …