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Joseph Goebbels, the leading propagandist of the Third Reich, believed in the power of the lie; the greater the lie, the greater the power. Goebbels would have loved Karl …

It may be unsettling to some that the man most responsible for overseeing coal ash regulation within the Obama administration has a track record of siding with polluters instead …

The Commonwealth Club of California January 22, 2010

Take a moment with this. That is the cover of Newsweek from the first week of March, the month in which we will mark the seventh anniversary of the …

A law that provides blanket immunity and pardons former members of Afghanistan’s armed factions for war crimes and human rights abuses committed prior to December 2001 was quietly enacted …

Although the global recession has had a serious impact on working men and women alike, two new reports make clear that women in the United States and throughout the …

As I was reading recent editorials by mainstream journalists, I was struck by their inability to transcend Old School political logic. Their thinking appears to be stuck in the …

The greed and selfishness that the free market capitalist economy inspires seem to impact every area of social and commercial interaction in consenting societies. It's not just Wall Street …

The political jousting since Sen. Chris Dodd proposed new financial reforms on Monday seems at first to be just another Washington ideological rift: liberals favoring regulating an industry, and …

As the clock ticks toward a late-week House vote promised by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), Democrats consider the possibility of passing the Senate version of the health care bill …