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

A new campaign unites caregivers and care-receivers with a revolutionary vision.

It’s insane that an affair—and not his cockamamie ideas—finished Cain.

After years of unnecessary spending and tax cuts, Republican politicians are finally complaining about unfathomable amounts of debt.

Facing a state budget that guts public jobs and services, a progressive coalition comes alive.

The president's re-election campaign manager has alienated grassroots constituencies.

Just how American bullets make their way into Bahraini guns, into weapons used by troops suppressing pro-democracy protesters, opens a wider window into the shadowy relationships between the Pentagon and a number of autocratic states in the Arab world. 

Remembering the progressive aide to Gabrielle Giffords who died in the attack in Tucson, Arizona.

The diplomat was spared the annoyance of seeing one of his best-known political creations accused of supervising the killing of captives in order to slice out their organs for transplants.

There exists amidst corporate abuses and political neglect a shadow government of kindness, made up of those who dedicate themselves to their ideals and act on their solidarities.