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Just after this story was published, we learned of the case of a lesbian woman from Uganda, set to be deported back to her country from the UK. She …

Should we cut Social Security to “save” it from cuts? Just two days after the President pledged during the State of the Union address to improve Social Security "without …

Cairo, Egypt - Violent protest spread across Cairo and other Egyptian cities on Friday as tens of thousands of demonstrators intensified their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak, pouring …

As the US war in Afghanistan spreads toward Pakistan and the strategy drifts to Counter Terrorism (CT), there is no deescalation in sight. In fact, it is increasingly clear …

Complaints about President Obama's State of the Union address on both sides of the political divide (which was obscured but not obliterated by the evening's novel seating arrangements) seemed …

For the first two years of his administration, President Obama had no overriding narrative, no frame to define his policy making, no way to make sense of what he …

Washington - Be ready for the paradoxical phase of Barack Obama's presidency. Many things will not be exactly as they appear. Paradox No. 1: Because over the next two …

The return of Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the U.N. nuclear regulatory agency who now leads of a group seeking constitutional reforms, could further energize protesters opposed to …

In his work, Howard Zinn embodied a notion of agency that exhibited a fierce moral courage and a deep propensity for engaged social action.

When you fly over the earth's oldest land mass, Australia, the view can be shocking. Scars as long as European countries are the result of erosion. Salt pans shimmer …