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“Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” is how Thomas Hobbes described life in the absence of society. His conclusion, 350 years ago, that society is necessary to maintain civilized …

The full cost of the war on terror comes to the fore in the first public accounting of how much has been spent on the Guantanamo military base since …

Did the nation heave a sigh of relief when BP announced that their latest gambit to “cap” the Deepwater Horizon gusher will result in hosing up fifty percent of …

Washington - The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has created a double bind for the Obama administration. How it deals with a challenge even more complicated than …

The president, consumed with cleaning up after his predecessors, can't just strip emotion from the public parts of his job. The BP oil spill is the perfect metaphor for …

Here's the president on March 31st, announcing his plan to lift a longstanding moratorium on offshore drilling: "Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce …

Did the nation heave a sigh of relief when BP announced that their latest gambit to “cap” the Deepwater Horizon gusher will result in hosing up fifty percent of …

The deficit hawk gang is again trying to take our children hostage with new threats of enormous debt burdens. As in the past, most of what they claim is …

Washington — Leaders of a government commission accused Goldman Sachs Monday of “stonewalling” their inquiry into causes of the financial crisis and said the panel has issued a subpoena …

If there's one number that should matter most to politicians right now — in Washington, in Arizona — it's 83. That is the percentage of young Hispanic voters who, …