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Long-time Liberals join neocons in attack on professors and colleges: Hacker and Dreifus' “Higher Education?”. Fish Stink From the Head

On Monday I will teach my final American history class of the semester to prison inmates. We have spent five weeks reading Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the …

Israeli and Lebanese troops exchanged fire in what are the most serious clashes since Israel's month-long war against Hezbollah in 2006, with two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist being …

Galesburg, Ill. - The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have drifted far off this year's political radar, and are likely to stay there. Even the recent barrage of headline-dominating …

Do you remember “And for the Sake of the Kids”? It was the motherhood-and-apple pie PAC through which coal company Massey Energy spent $3 million to defeat West Virginia's …

Washington- For comedian-cum-politician Al Franken, wasting energy is no laughing matter. That conviction prompted the rookie Minnesota Democratic senator to pair up with a Republican in July to introduce …

Lock the prisons, Toss the key; Just don't send The bill to me. Prison numbers are tough to pin down. There is the federal system, there are 50 state …

US Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk announced Friday that the US will file a case against Guatemala for labor rights violations.

On Friday, the Polish Border Guard Office released a number of documents to the Warsaw-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, which, for the first time, provide details of the …

The business dean at an Alabama university tried to force a department chairman to help unlawfully terminate a faculty member who has ties to labor unions and liberal politics, …