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In four decades, he has gone from journalistically exposing widespread White House criminality that forced a presidential resignation to eld...

On the eve of sequester, both sides are outdoing themselves in terrifying Americans about catastrophic cuts, but the name in the award envel...

The Speaker shoots himself in the foot urging that “the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something” about sequester cuts. The Upp...

Pace Bill Maher’s aggressive atheism and the Religious Right’s heartless Puritanism, mainline Protestant leaders step forward to urge that t...

Season 3 is gone and so are two of the most appealing characters, reflecting not the choice of series creators but career moves by young act...

As a former governor tries to wash himself clean in South Carolina, David Petraeus surfaces briefly to underscore what was lost in last yea...

After Marco Rubio runs second to a Carnival cruise ship in last week’s watery mishaps, a fellow Floridian bobs to the surface hugging a fift...

As cops close in on the fiery last stand of a mass murderer, a continent away Barack Obama tries to smoke out those who have been holding Am...

The President will promise progress, GOP and Tea Party rebuttals will predict doom, but a provocative report on America’s state of mind is a...

That message from an ancient bumper sticker comes to mind as a frustrated Congress tries to paper over American gun madness by throwing mone...

Super Bowl Sunday comes and goes with reminders of how violent American life has become in 2013. Before the Game, “ Meet the Press ” un...

The vexing question about Obama’s nominee for Defense Secretary is not his political beliefs, history or sincerity but one that dares not sp...

As politicians in Washington slow-dance to the Second Amendment, elsewhere in American culture a different music about gun control is being ...

Barack Obama’s second term begins with a dirty word. The New York Times reports his Inaugural Speech with a banner headline, “Obama Off...

On a day that Congressional Democrats pushed to expand legal protections for women against violence, Tea Party members were abusing the most...

For the aged, waking up every morning comes as a gift. Today has a ribbon on it. The TV screen is a flood of flags , bunting, crowds , ...

If he were alive, the man whose birthday we celebrate tomorrow would be 84, heavy with the years denied him by a bullet at age 39. What...

John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, John Lennon. Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown. From the past century...

“The arc of the moral universe is long,” Martin Luther King said in 1965, “but it bends toward justice." On January 21, the federa...

It takes a split second and pennies to end a life but hours of surgery and months of rehab, often hundreds of thousands of dollars to save s...