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It’s been two weeks since a group of inmates in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit stopped eating. Their hunger strike was launched to protest conditions in solitary …

What did the President do in response to last week’s horrendous job report — unemployment rising to 9.2 percent in June, with only 18,000 new jobs (125,000 are needed …

Part I: The Tax Lie Fact: Tax Hikes Don’t “Cripple Job Creation” Conservatives say they are prepared to blow up the economy by not lifting …

In a 1973 short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” fantasy writer Ursula Le Guin describes a peculiar city where the inhabitants' prosperity depends entirely upon the …

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Rally, January 27th, 2007. (Photo: IowaPolitics.com) “We don't want just a seat at the table. We want to run the table,” Hugh …

The climate problem has moved from the abstract to the very real in the last 18 months.  Instead of charts and graphs about what will happen someday, we’ve got …

(Photo: biologycorner) The New York Times coverage of the recent National Education Association (NEA) convention focused on the inconsequential, while paying little notice to what harbored fundamental …

Washington - The wounded are especially dangerous fighters. President Obama now occupies the high ground in the debt-ceiling debate, having called the Republicans' bluff on the debt. He showed …

Silwan, a Palestinian village directly across the Kidron Valley, across from the City of David, in which high-profile settler organization Elad may have used suspect methods to acquire land. …

Washington - President Obama abruptly left debt negotiations with congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House when a top Republican said there was no longer time to engage in …