While publicly vaunting drone strike reforms allegedly aimed at minimizing civilian deaths, President Barack Obama secretly loosened the standards for covert attacks in Pakistan, likely…
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If our wars in the Greater Middle East ever end, it’s a pretty safe bet that they will end badly -- and it won't be…
Just as Karl Marx claimed that History had chosen the proletariat, neoconservatives claim that History has chosen America. Just as the Nazis proclaimed “Deutschland uber…
As democratic embers of our republic fizzle, the big question remains: what term best fits our situation, if not our degraded system? If unconscionable wealth…
A security guard recently told me he didn’t know how much he’d be earning from week to week because his firm kept changing his schedule…
It’s amusing to see how our staunch progressives — who believe so deeply in a level playing field and fair play, who railed so vociferously…
Perhaps the most extraordinary aspect of President Obama’s announcement Thursday that two hostages of Al Qaeda, an American and an Italian, were killed in a…
A republican form of government is one in which power resides in elected officials representing the citizens, and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law.…
The almost daily murders of young black men and women by police in the United States—a crisis undiminished by the protests of groups such as…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently classified glyphosate, the active substance of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, as “probably causing cancer in human beings.” Germany is charged…
In disclosing the deaths of two Western hostages in a U.S. drone strike on an Al-Qaeda compound, President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he had ordered…
President Obama standing with U.S. Trade Representive Michael Froman outside the White House in June of 2013. Froman was nominated by the president for the…