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Wars are fought because some people decide it is in their interests to fight them. World War I was not started over the Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination, nor was it …

UE's Republic Windows and Doors Tour. (Photo: mar is sea Y / Flickr) Three years ago, a worker occupation in Chicago saved a factory and sent up …

Beirut - The Syrian Army overwhelmed the main rebel stronghold in the embattled city of Homs on Thursday, setting the stage for its elite soldiers to turn their attention …

(Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Nashua, New Hamshire - With his re-election fate increasingly tied to the price Americans are paying at the gas pump, President …

I worked for many years as a reporter in upstate New York, where I covered local news like school board meetings and did features on things like watercolor exhibits …

Just moments after performing a dramatic final death scene, Palestinian playwright Abdelfattah Abusrour was back on stage delivering an afterword that was no less intense. Speaking softly, Abusrour told …

Occupy Town Square in Tompkins Square Park, East Village, New York. February 26, 2012. (Photo: David Shankbone) Last night, Wikileaks revealed a massive trove of e-mails from …

Whitney Battle-Baptiste. (Photo: whitneybattlebaptiste.wordpress.com) Every February is Black History Month, which presents many opportunities to explore and contextualize the broader, nuanced and less familiar aspects of what …

The Obama administration unveiled its corporate tax reform plan last week, which would lower the top rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, billing it as an effort to …

London - A day after presiding over the publication of his new, damn-the-critics Sun on Sunday tabloid, Rupert Murdoch was confronted with fresh allegations from a top police investigator …