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Update: The Wall Street Journal reports that according to Partners in Health, 20 000 people a day are dying because of lack of access to medical treatment. The necessary …

TRANSCRIPT | President Obama: Banking Reform and the Economy President Obama: Good morning, everybody. I just had a very productive meeting with two members of my …

So, you thought inhaling glue or driving without a seatbelt was bad for your health? Try living next to a coal-fired power plant. That's the diagnosis that Physicians for …

In the wake of a disaster such as Haiti is experiencing right now, there's a strong impetus to help coming from people across a wide range of persuasions and …

I spent Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in Washington, DC, as part of the Witness Against Torture fast, which campaigns to end all forms of torture, and has worked …

While the Obama administration has made progress in its first year on some civil liberties and civil rights issues, its record on others such as privacy and surveillance is …

Are you one of the millions of progressives grieving about the catastrophic fiasco that happened in Massachusetts yesterday? Wondering why it is that a Republican took the Senate seat …

President Obama is now, finally, getting tough on Wall Street.

The mayor of my town just north of New York City lives one street away. He was - until last month - a visibly proud supporter of Barack Obama: …

The FBI illegally obtained thousands of private phone records from telecommunications companies during the Bush administration's tenure in office, according to a report released Wednesday by the Department of …