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In a release to the press, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that he had placed a “hold” on the nomination of Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of …

PBS Airtime: Friday, December 4, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings here).

In May 2008, during a campaign stop in Charleston, West Virginia, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama gave a passionate speech about the inadequate care war veterans had received, particularly those …

Imagine having family health care one day and having it yanked away the next. Your job hasn't changed. And other public employees in your state — the …

Boston - If you ever wondered why God invented the delete button, let me pass along the e-mail that arrived on the wings of various listservs directed at the …

Washington - President Obama has bought himself some time on Afghanistan and lived up to his promise to seek policies that fit into no one's philosophical pigeonholes. He has …

Only one exercise in Washington surpasses the fun of speculating on what may happen next week in Copenhagen: the rush to get in a final word before the climate …

Senator Bernie Sanders said today that he will try to block Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second term as head of the Federal Reserve. The Vermont Independent blames Bernanke …

This could actually be damaging for the GOP. Never before has the reality of their historic obstructionism been so obvious. Judd Gregg has now created an obstruction manual that …

Cambodia this week saw closing arguments in the trial against Kaing Guek Eav, alias Comrade Duch, the 67-year-old former commandant of the infamous Khmer Rouge torture prison known as …