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Washington - It was, or so I thought, a dandy column idea: an imaginary, missing chapter of George W. Bush's “Decision Points,” in which the former president would admit …

Not only is it unclear that the U.S. and NATO are winning their war in Afghanistan, the lack of support for their effort by the Afghanistan president himself has …

Long before the recent revelations of widespread foreclosure fraud, a group of community organizers in Chicago was taking on one of the nation's most pressing issues from the grassroots …

 

By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he [the entrepreneur] intends only his own security, and by directing that industry in such a manner as …

The construction projects are sprouting like mushrooms: walled complexes, high-strength weapons vaults, and underground bunkers with command and control capacities — and they're being planned and funded by a …

“It's the wrong answer to not a problem," says Dean Baker of the report out last week from the leaders of Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. …

In light of the success of Davis Guggenheim's documentary, Waiting for Superman, many education experts have come out with vehement criticism against the film's assertion that teachers, and the …

Former White House budget director Peter Orszag is taking a new approach in his quest to cut Social Security. He's playing progressive “good cop” to to the ultra-right bad …

Rangel Found Guilty of 11 Ethics Violations