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The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

A person can only eat so much, but the craving for money is boundless—the purse, not the belly, is the void that is never filled.

Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.

A VideoNation report on the Bush Administration's growing dependence on private security forces such as Blackwater USA and efforts in Congress to rein them in.

The current battle is the latest in a larger, ideologically driven conflict.

Affirmative action, in theory, is a matter of distributive justice, which is why liberals and progressives tend to look benevolently on it while conservatives and libertarians consider it a trave

Iraq is changing lives and political sentiments in a small Midwest town.

Electronic counts, unaudited touch-screen ballots, enhance opportunities for fraud.

Click here to read Brown at 50 by Eric Foner and Randall Kennedy.

Exxon has used the legal system to avoid paying damages for the Valdez spill.