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Throughout the financial reform debate, the finance industry has waged an unprecedented assault on the democratic process, spending an estimated $1.4 million per day to influence Congress and hiring …

The U.S. government's rhetoric on atrocities in Africa doesn't match its long record of supporting authoritarian regimes.

The so-called “flash crash” on Wall Street last week, in which the Dow Jones industrial average dropped by almost 1,000 points, may be the fault of a single trader …

Disposability “As the social state is displaced by the market, a new kind of politics is emerging in which some lives, if not whole groups, are seen as …

Too many of us hold back from community involvement because we think we don't know enough to act on our beliefs, or don't have the standing or confidence to …

“The phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the Arab world is wrong, misleading and causes damage to the Palestinian cause.” In his new book, Lebanese-French academic Gilbert Achcar grapples for …

The financial crisis has unveiled a new set of public villains—corrupt corporate capitalists who leveraged their connections in government for their own personal profit. During the Clinton and Bush …

President Obama will not get the United States out of Iraq in his first term. If he wins a second term, it is highly unlikely he will get us …

Washington - Brace yourself for several months of occasionally biting but essentially meaningless political theater over the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.

The 7.3 earthquake which struck Haiti on January 12 was only the start of Haiti's most recent catastrophe. It has been followed by an ever-deepening social and economic crisis …