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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

Dear Congressional Democrats: Welcome back to our nation's capital for your one final session of the 111th Congress. Come January, the Republicans will take over the House while the …

We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and …