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The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts.

The Devil we know certainly has friends. Time for other voices to be raised, loud, fast.

With Larry Summers leaving, who should Obama pick to shake up his economic team? Things could get better—or worse.

Funny how here in the U.S. we've only heard about one extreme: the Tea Party movement, the angry, anti-government, pro-gun, far white.

Why the media—and probably more voters than we like to think—find her bewitching.

The massive job losses between 2008 and 2009 were surely the biggest factor in the record poverty numbers the Census just reported. But those harrowing months were neither the beginning nor the end of the problem.

Should Democrats spend more time talking about masturbation?

Progressive scored a victory last night in a closely watched House race in New Hampshire, improving Democrats' odds in the general election.

The first since the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case, which lifted a ban on direct corporate spending—the 2010 elections are being bought by the highest bidder.

The opening of the NFL season witnessed perhaps the most public display of solidarity in US history. Seriously.