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In recent weeks, Yemeni protesters calling for an immediate end to the 32-year reign of US-backed President Ali Abdullah Saleh have been met with increasing violence at the hands …

Republicans are far from figuring out who will be their next presidential candidate, but Barack Obama has already decided who he's running against: Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, a …

Washington - There's a reason presidents go gray. The job is difficult. The pressures are unrelenting. If you don't realize this, you're not qualified to be president. Or you're …

“This was a decisive election about judicial independence,” Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser said at a press conference in Madison last Monday, declaring victory and explaining his opposition …

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(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: mtsofan, FlyingSinger) The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular …

A Tea Party favorite, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during a town hall meeting in Hillsborough, New Jersey, on March 2, 2011. After more than a year in office, …

This can't end well. But then, how often do empires end well, really? They live vampirically by feeding off others until, sooner or later, they begin …

Bukowski loved the idea of poetry wars. Even at the lowest level of mimeo magazines, when he was co-editing Laugh Literary & Man the Humping Guns with Neeli Cherry, …

Washington - At a November 2009 meeting, top Iranian security officials allegedly discussed staging a student takeover of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran, much as students had seized …