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The message is an orchestrated lie, but the billboards are still a jarring sight. A black child, looking frightened and on the verge of tears, fills nearly half the …

In a speech today at the White House, President Obama instructed Congress to make a final push for completion of the divisive health care reform legislation. He endorsed the …

IMF-Style Austerity Measures Come to America: What “Fiscal Responsibility” Means to You. In addition to mandatory private health insurance premiums, we may soon be hit with a "mandatory …

Airtime: Friday, March 5, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).

I finally finished reading Barbara Kingsolver's latest brilliant novel, “The Lacuna,” and it's the kind of book that engenders discussion on a wide variety of important topics. For those …

US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu returned from China last July with a sober understanding of the degree to which China had advanced in …

Is this minuscule nation, among the least populated in the world (roughly 700,000 inhabitants), stuck between two of the most densely populated countries in the world (India and China), …

On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) …

Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it's never too soon to think about the …

Baghdad, Iraq - Three powerful suicide bombings killed at least 33 people and injured more than 50 others in the restive Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, authorities said, with …