USA

Dangerous cybersecurity legislation would allow Google and Facebook to hand over even more of your information to the NSA and FBI.
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Faced with an unprecedented number of sources of insecurity--terrorism in the homeland, failed wars, an economy in decline--Americans are scared. Like a drowning person, they thrash…
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Leading proponents of immigration reform are preparing to throw their full political weight behind President Obama as he prepares to use executive authorities to revamp the nation's…
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College sports are a big business in which everyone is making money — everyone except the eighteen to twenty-one-year-old kids who every game risk permanent career-ending injuries.
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Young in years but older than Methuselah in mindset when it comes to the land of his parents, the new Congressman is one more denizen in the shameful fauna of those who want Washington…
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The administration announced last Friday that it would double the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, to 3,100; request an additional $5.6 billion for the war; and put U.S. trainers closer…
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Let’s turn Election Day into a holiday. It’s one giant leap for a political system that the world can look upon as an example, not a failure.
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United States political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has filed a lawsuit on the grounds that a new Pennsylvania law is aimed at silencing prisoners.
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Washington should recognize that the most it can hope to accomplish is to positively influence Cuba’s evolution toward a more open society. That is more likely to come about through…
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The tax revenues from marijuana in states where it has been legalised are relatively sizeable - is this one of the reasons why many places are consenting to pro-marijuana legislation?
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