Is the U.S. housing market really recovering? That depends on who you ask. Housing prices are on the rise again, but that gain is being driven chiefly by Wall Street investors, who in the past two ...

A Superior Court judge who sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter noted in her order that he 'will not fare well' in prison and needed treatment instead of

America's student debt burden has been on the rise for years, along with America's class of incredibly well-educated retail workers. A new report reveals who's driving the train to debt hell: grad ...

Legislation making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives would significantly reduce National Science Foundation funds for the social sciences and interfere with the agency's peer-­review

I'm just beginning to go through the House Intelligence Fake Dragnet Fix bill - what I will henceforth call the RuppRogers Fake Dragnet Fix. It does have some improvements - the kind of bones you ...

Dispatches Obama's New NSA Proposal and Democratic Partisan Hackery I vividly recall the first time I realized just how mindlessly and uncritically supportive of President Obama many Democrats were

It was quietly reported last June that the FBI was aware that an organization -- possibly a law enforcement agency -- had plans to assassinate leaders of the Occupy movement, and the bureau did ...

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Recently I jumped on a train to Birmingham and attended the founding conference of Students For Co-operation, a new national federation supporting students to set up co-operatives while at ...

President Obama is on the receiving end of scorn for remarks made during a high-profile speech in Brussels on Wednesday in which he defended the U.S. invasion of Iraq in an attempt to chastise ...