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As you probably know, the House just passed H.R. 3, and to comment on the ongoing attacks on reproductive rights - and the lie that is "the culture of …

In Massachusetts, a Democratic state legislature voted to take away public workers' right to collectively bargain over health care, in what Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, calls "A …

Phone home, Mr. President. Laurence Tribe, the legendary constitutional law professor, is really ticked off with you. That should be some kind of wake up call. Because …

Some Americans, especially on the Left, seem to have almost forgotten that Barack Obama is an African-American whose rise to the presidency was one of the most unlikely political …

A protester gestures from an upper floor of the rotunda at the State Capitol building, in Madison, Wis., February 27, 2011. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno / The New York Times) …

I'm feeling pretty guilty. I hadn't known I was causing billionaires so much suffering. The former co-chair of President Obama's deficit (aka catfood) commission just asked me during a …

An Afghan Special Forces soldier searches a mock detainee during a unit demonstration for Gen. David H. Petraeus. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell / isafmedia) Washington - …

He levitated the Pentagon, brought down Lyndon B. Johnson, shamed Richard Nixon, challenged Wall Street and pioneered a cultural revolution.

Sous chef Eric Fricker, of La Bernadin restaurant, checks fillets of red snapper for radiation, in New York, April 5, 2011. Restaurant owners are taking all precautions to be …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: _Davo_ 1, 2, 3) Our economic and political mess became more clear once I realized that most of the important political …