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Despite a few victories in the lame-duck session of Congress, Democrats and progressives should be under no illusion about the new flood of know-nothingism that is about to inundate …

A daffy Wall Street Journal editorial about the “vanishing millionaires” of Oregon lit a spark in a fairly humorless week. It offers the usual boilerplate about the rich fleeing …

The right's propaganda machine begins with a simple narrative, repeats it endlessly, and then ties current events to the narrative to drive the point home. The corporate/conservative right are …

What’s coming in 2011? We asked thought leaders to share their perspectives on the biggest challenges for the year ahead, along with the changes they’d like to see and …

Remember way back when? President Barack Obama promised to close the Guantánamo prison, restore the United States' moral standing, and end the practice of torture. It was two years …

Jerusalem - With Middle East peace talks at a standstill, a group of activists is taking matters into its own hands. The Parents’ Circle Families Forum, a group comprising …

Rep. Steve King, a Republican representative from Iowa, has it all figured out - life, that is. It's simple, he says, according to Lynda Waddington writing on the Iowa …

Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can better understand the …

These days, China seems to play much the same role in American public discourse that Japan did two decades ago. We Americans look at our own economic follies — …

In a recent article in The Weekly Standard entitled “The Boy from Yazoo City,” Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA) and a potential 2012 …