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"Even now, I can't find the words to explain the kinds of horrors that are happening,” wrote Nurjan Tulegabylova with El Agartuu, a women’s organization based in Kyrgyzstan. “There …

Every June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. …

A commonly proffered argument against negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan has been: “Why should the Afghan Taliban negotiate, when they think they are winning?” For many months, …

Tel Aviv, Israel - An Israeli military investigation into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla concluded Monday that there were “no failures, but mistakes were made.” Nine activists, …

Feminism should realign itself with social justice and avoid reducing all questions of women's lives to issues of sexuality and sexual behavior.

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico — If Dante had ever been to Juarez he would have placed it squarely in the seventh circle of hell, the one housing “violence” and "ringed …

Why many are calling for a modern incarnation of the Depression-era program.

One of the great things about being a novelist is that the form enables me to dramatize the way the government and establishment media collude to manipulate public opinion. …

In other words, Americans are keeping their jobs or finding new ones only by accepting lower wages.

Washington - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pressured the nation's banks Monday to do more lending to small businesses, while the Obama administration spotlighted a new tax credit for …