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Why the real victor in Campaign 2012 won’t be Obama or Romney.

A lesson in Republican math and military spending.

In Life Sentences, William Gass shows that consciousness needs to be stressed to be strengthened.

With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

How drones, special operations forces and the US Navy plan to end national sovereignty as we know it.

Hit by the double whammy of poverty and austerity, a West Oakland school that once served children well is struggling.

Gitmo in the present millennium is no departure at all from the American tradition in Guantánamo Bay.

A case being heard this month will likely define the free speech rights of federal employees and so determine the quality of people who will make up our government.

Meet the secret bases that make up the backbone of a new American robotic way of war.

Uncovering the true size and scope of the global war being fought by the Pentagon's secret “shadow warriors.”