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President Obama got one step closer to signing a major financial reform bill, as the House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a House-Senate compromise on the measure. …

“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.” -Frederick Douglass

On May 27, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to the latest defense spending bill that would lift the ban on gays in the US military and …

Thirty-six American cities and towns are named after the Marquis de Lafayette — the best-known being Fayetteville, N.C., and Lafayette, La. Countless streets, parks and counties also honor the …

For Tucson native and immigrant rights activist Leilani Clark, there are two Tucsons. The one in her head - a desert oasis where, just a short ten-minute drive from …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - What would the wealthy nations of the West (and their rising rivals in the East) do if they actually wanted to prevent catastrophic warming? …

The real deficit is jobs. That is one more of those things that everyone can see in front of their faces, but we're told it isn't what it is. …

Washington - One of the strangest lead sentences I have ever encountered appeared in Politico last week. It read: "John Kerry has been the most aggressive advocate of climate …

It was 1967, and the world was on fire. War at home and abroad demonstrably began to rear its head, and long-held American values of moral exceptionalism and widespread …

Washington - A congressional commission pressed Goldman Sachs executives Wednesday to spell out how much their company has earned from its exotic bets against the housing market, including $20 …