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What exactly does the president mean when he promises a “clear timeline to wind down the war"?

Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the relationship features more elements of cold-war conflict than of stable cooperation.

Republicans have accomplished what Democrats and unions never could: they’ve made the National Labor Relations Board a household name.

Our rulers thought we could be panicked into a permanent state of war. They underestimated our consciousness and commitment.

Electoral racism may be dead, but is there a more subtle form of racism at work in the white flight from Obama?

The peaceful, democratic end to violence in Northern Ireland could be a model for a way out of the Israel-Palestine stalemate. UN recognition of Palestinian statehood would be the first step.

Populist challenger Andrew Romanoff would ordinarily be expected to win Colorado's US Senate Democratic primary. But incumbent Michael Bennet is backed by an overflowing campaign war chest—and an endorsement by Barack Obama.

In Paul Krassner's new book, what's obscene is not sex but anything greedy, dishonest or cruel.

They have some justifying to do.

Marginal extremist voices are amplified by the right-wing echo chamber.