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PBS Airtime: Friday, November 13, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings here). While politicians and the media war over “the public option” and …

For drone freaks (and these days Washington seems full of them), here's the good news: Drones are hot! Not long ago — 2006 to be exact — …

This past Wednesday, Adm. Mike Mullen (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) announced that the Pentagon will seek additional war funds for the Iraq and …

California is quickly losing its once-brilliant luster for its commitment to higher education with the announcement that the California State University (CSU) system plans to cut …

Family of Secrets Russ Baker Bloomsbury Press, 2009 There's alternative history and there's secret history. Generally, in the former, the invisible hand of the market …

How is it that Veterans Day gets turned around into US Military Hegemony Day? The airwaves were buried under an avalanche of lip service about veterans, but …

During the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS program), better known as the Cash for Clunkers program, consumers turned in gas guzzlers and bought nearly 700,000 more fuel-efficient vehicles in …

Michael Crowley of the New Republic is the latest journalist to give absolution to Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates for his long record of politicizing intelligence …

Critics of President Obama's changes to the regulations governing military commissions are characterizing these changes as “cosmetic improvements,” amid a growing consensus among human rights …

While fewer and fewer people are willing to publicly deny the validity of global warming science, those who oppose action to protect the climate have taken up …