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When you call yourself a “historian,” you create the implication that you can speak authoritatively about, well, history. But last Friday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich defied that common …

While Congress debated over the recently passed free trade agreement, neither side acknowledged that a contract with Panama will not only fail to provide a level playing field for …

Standing in front of a judge is intimidating (to me anyway). It seems a whole lot easier to cross a line, refuse to move, or lie down in the …

(Photo: Chip Litherland / The New York Times) If the national movement to “reform” public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. …

For a few decades now, American economic policy has focused on keeping inflation low, assuming that the natural rate of unemployment is fairly high. In general, that has led …

An Occupy Wall Street protester is detained following an attempt to re-enter Zuccotti Park, in New York on November 15, 2011. Hundreds of police officers arrested about 200 demonstrators …

Miami - A new report says the United States needs to do more to encourage market reforms and restructuring in Cuba as it tries to bolster its crumbling economy. …

So here’s the question: Despite the media’s appalling coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement, is a more sustained and sustainable assault on the injustices of corporate capitalism gaining …

Angus Wright has a way of saying things we may not want to hear in a way that’s hard to ignore. An example: During a meeting of …

This Is What Defeat Looks Like How about a moment of silence for the passing of the American Dream? M.R.I.C. (May it rest in …