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From the president to Congress to nearly every neighborhood in America, the focus today is on job creation. But for millions of Americans, just having a job doesn’t mean …

“See I fought for this country and still got condemned / Find myself marching with people who hated me / Yet I managed to call 'em my friend.” That’s …

Is current U.S. foreign policy in Africa following a blueprint drawn up almost eight years ago by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, one of the most conservative think tanks in …

In 2007, Governor Rick Perry shocked both public health officials and his conservative base when he signed an executive order mandating that female students in Texas be vaccinated against …

More than a quarter of a million security contractors have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002, and between them they have managed to “lose” at least $31 …

Following up on yesterday’s column about corporate spending, I saw that John Coates (Harvard Law School) and Taylor Lincoln (Public Citizen) have published a study of the relationship between …

Protesters demonstrate in San Francisco, California on June 10, 2009. California lawmakers are considering the establishment of a state-owned bank as a response to the state's ongoing budget problems. …

Her touch was gentler than anything I'd ever felt before - a tiny hand resting on my upper back. Standing in the middle of a tightly packed audience at …

Nine-eleven's ten-year anniversary is sparking retrospectives ranging from lives lost to a War on Terror launched. But media accounts have omitted an important political casualty: the short-lived “anti-globalization” movement, …

Americans respected the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. with silence, reverence, retrospection. Sept. 11, 2001, changed the world as we knew it, …