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What a difference a year makes. It seemed last time this season, Obama-mania was at fever pitch. Progressives felt they finally had a person...

One of the problems that occurs during discussions of global poverty (on the rare occassion they take place at all), is the seeming cognitiv...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Never mind that support for the Senate's healthcare bill has...

The growing divide between the rich nations and those of the developing world over climate change erupted into full view this week, as poor ...

The "liberal media" is one of the most enduring myths in political Americana. Despite all evidence to the contrary, which actually...

This past summer, after two conservative operatives revealed potentially damaging (and potentially doctored) videos of ACORN (Association o...

At Westpoint last week, President Barack Obama announced a much awaited troop surge in the Afghan war he has inherited, and now expanded. So...

I remember watching a news report once and being struck by the glaring contradiction of images displayed by media of Israelis and Palestinia...

One of the missed teachable moments during the recent global outcry against Uganda's draconian anti-homosexual bill, has been the convol...

On December 2, 1954, the U.S. Senate voted to censure Sen. Joseph McCarthy, bringing to an end four years of political intimidation and char...

Last Sunday the Swiss held a referendum on whether to ban the construction of Muslim minarets, a startling move in a country best known for...

For Africa, WW2 didn't begin in 1939. It began in 1935, as Italian forces under fascist Benito Mussolini invaded the only fully independ...

As President Obama prepares to announce what will most likely be an increase in troops in Afghanistan Tuesday night in the midst of a troubl...

All is not well in Obamaland. Nevermind the tea-baggers, FOX News and the continuing sad comedy that is the GOP, there is dissatisfaction gr...

Something to think about this Thanksgiving- Over 49 million Americans, one in seven, struggled to find enough to eat last year, according to...

No matter what happens at Copenhagen or beyond, the world is locked in to decades of temperature rise and the associated climate impacts: de...

What could be worse than covert US directed drone missile attacks that kill civilians in aggressive acts against a sovereign nation? How abo...

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How crazy does crazy have to get before it all gets dangerous? Rachel Maddow talks to former Evangelist Frank Schaeffer about the growing an...

Monsters of disaster are special kinds of divine warning. They are harbingers of things we do not want to face, of catastrophes, and we fear...

Listen to much of the fearmongering from the GOP and the usual right-wing suspects, and you might think the Attorney General of the US had d...

Young Billy wished me away to the cornfield sometime back in June... ...what'd I miss?

...let's not forget reality. Barack Obama did not win an election to be president of Goodwill Industries, or the YMCA, or the Ford Found...

Protests. Riots. Unrest. Iran 2009 is today looking a lot like Iran 1979. But this time the former revolutionaries are holding the reins of ...

The notion that so-called "free trade" neo-liberal policies have led to increased poverty throughout the developing world is one t...

It was just eleven days ago that an anti-abortion militant with white supremacist ties gunned down reproductive rights doctor George Tiller...

Last week an anti-choice militant named Scott Roeder walked into a Kansas church and gunned down reproductive doctor George Tiller. Roeder i...

Rush and Newt are winning? When I first read that title by E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post, I was puzzled. Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingric...