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An unexpected spurt in manufacturing activity is doing little to dispel the gloom that envelopes the U.S. economy midway through the year.

Obama campaign tries to control the impact of his stance on FISA.

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn’t a war about oil. That’s cynical and simplistic, they said. It’s about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator.

Private sector job gains in the Bush years may fall below 3 million by November.

French PM Nicolas Sarkozy wants to use France’s turn in the EU’s rotating presdiency to “harmonize” European immigration policy.

“Hancock” is supposed to be a wry commentary on the pressure of being Will Smith, but the meesage gets lost in a big-budget Hollywood train wreck.

A new book explores the real populist vision that lies behind the shallow rhetoric to which we’ve been subjected during this election year.

There was little media introspection about Heath Ledger’s overdose, while Amy Winehouse receives daily scrutiny for her drug habits. What gives?

While the the American Medical Association claims pot has no medical value, Big Pharma is busy getting patents for marijuana products.

An embedded U.S. journalist said the military tried to censor him after he posted photos from Fallujah.

Realpolitik is one thing. Realstupidpolitik is quite another.

Most representations of sexuality in pop culture are not sexy or sexual, erotic or arousing; they’re shallow and laughable.

Meet the Council of Conservative Citizens — a group that offers a biblical defense of slavery and laments the surivival of African babies.

This Fourth of July, let’s remember that it’s not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.

This Fourth of July, let’s remember that it’s not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.

Just because a Harvard academic says something is so, doesn’t mean it is.

The latest episode of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ callous denial of veterans’ suffering is a continuation of a long tradition.

The Iraq disaster and rising gas and food prices have people across the globe in a state of fear and shock. It’s high times for Bush & Co.

Years after he was found not guilty in a federal court, the Bush administration is keeping a Palestinian university professor jailed, in legal limbo.

What should progressives do about Obama’s move to the center?

What should progressives do about Obama’s move to the center?

Some of the most serious pollution problems may not lie outdoors, but in the home.

RINF has launched a new web hosting service for businesses, individuals, groups and campaigns.
As dissident websites and blogs are increasingly being censored and in some cases shut down for their political views, our new service aims to protect free speech and help keep the multi-corporates from controlling what can be said and done on the Internet. And [...]

Historians will undoubtedly consider our current era of voting machines the technological equivalent of the 8-track tape machine.

Even worse, Bush wants to ensure that faith-based organizations receiving federal funds can discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion.

And why is the high level of insomnia among women ignored by researchers?

Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil.” But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can’t live up to its own hype.

By SCOTT SHANE | The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”
What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their [...]

By LARA JAKES JORDAN | Nearly 40 years ago, the FBI was roundly criticized for investigating Americans without evidence they had broken any laws. Now, critics fear the FBI may be gearing up to do it again.
Tentative Justice Department guidelines, to be released later this summer, would let agents investigate people whose backgrounds — and [...]

AP | U.S. prosecution of terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility fall short of international standards for fair trials, a U.N. rights official said Monday.
U.N. envoy Philip Alston said the tribunals are flawed because of detainees’ limited access to defense attorneys at the remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba, as well as [...]