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Blacks are about twice as likely as whites to wind up in the more onerous and costly form of consumer bankruptcy as they try to dig out from their …

The voting systems in use for the nation's first three all-important electoral contests in the 2012 primary —- from Iowa to New Hampshire to Saturday's South Carolina Primary —- …

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo: Andrew Burton / The New York Times) Many people on Wall Street are befuddled. After all, a private equity firm creating …

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. (Photo: Josh Haner / The New York Times) If you're not a campaign finance wonk, …

Washington - The Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the conventional wisdom goes, is exceptionally supportive of free speech. Leading scholars and practitioners have called the Roberts court …

Etta James stands out as a musical giant and a reminder of what music could be when it's rooted in passion, desire and possibility.

Newt Gingrich looks to be winning the race-baiting competition this Republican primary season. Fueled by a new version of his well honed attacks on the safety net, Gingrich celebrated …

This is the front cover of a pamphlet produced by a Kuwaiti-based anti-Guantanamo organization to try and win the release of two Kuwaiti prisoners, pictured on the cover of …

(Photo: JasonUnbound / Flickr) Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of …

This weekend, David Stockman, former budget director for President Reagan speaks candidly with Bill Moyers about how money dominates politics, distorting free markets and endangering democracy. “As a …