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I am 62 and have just reached the age where I could apply for Social Security retirement benefits. Of course, I'd be crazy to do that and collect some …

A camp resident at a displacement camp in Port-au-Prince. (Photo: Vince Warren and Laura Raymond) Recently, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) delegation in Haiti visited the …

Former Vice President Dick Cheney at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) “Deficit terrorists” are gutting governments and forcing the privatization …

Fort Lauderdale, Florida - In central Florida, a Congressional town meeting erupted into near chaos on Tuesday as attendees accused a Republican lawmaker of trying to dismantle Medicare while …

And then, despair. Despair which is, I suppose, the best word I can summon with which to describe that suffocating sensation of a certain familiar combination of anger, frustration, …

A pair of statues by artist Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir was given to Reykjavík, Iceland, from the bank SPRON in 2004. (Photo: Gunnlaugur Þ. Briem) Now, there is a …

Washington - President Obama is expected this week to name Leon E. Panetta, the director of central intelligence, as defense secretary and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, as …

While advocates for elders are decrying political proposals that would cut budgets “on the backs of seniors and the poor,” Howard Bedlin of the National Council on Aging (NCOA) …

Washington - The nuclear power accidents at Fukushima this spring and at Chernobyl 25 years ago Tuesday show that radiation releases can endanger people and contaminate land many miles …

Washington - There's a reason presidents go gray. The job is difficult. The pressures are unrelenting. If you don't realize this, you're not qualified to be president. Or you're …