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The government is spending real money on an imaginary war.

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

In terms of what used to be called “foreign policy,” and more recently “national security,” the United States is now a post-legal society.

Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is the latest monotonous revery about the Internet social revolution. Evgeny Morozov punctures that bubble.

Huey Long was the first politician who knew how to make power just as the robber barons made money.

If it really is time for accountability, we should start by holding banks and financial institutions responsible for their actions and not allow them to rob us again with TARP II.

There is much less to Obama's stimulus plan than meets the eye. What's he going to do about it?

From 2016, a futurist looks back on 2008, where the seeds of the slow-mo apolcalypse now consuming the planet were planted.

In the early 1900s Walter Lippman laid the groundrules for public debate in America. Have the US media followed his prescriptions?

Clinton vows to defend Americans against the privileged and powerful, but her ties to big business compromise her populist promises.