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It's football's forgotten game. Can the Pro Bowl be fixed?

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Back in 2007, when General David Petraeus was the surge commander of US forces in Iraq, he had a penchant for clock imagery. In an interview in April of that year, he typically said: "I'm conscious of

Because of a trio of mistakes by Obama, Democrats' hold on Congress is increasingly precarious.

Hedge funds made their biggest gains in a decade last year, according to the Hedge Fund Research Index, an industry benchmark. Funds returned an average 20% in 2009, having had their worst year ever in 2008. Investors withdrew $131 billion from hedge fund

The president’s speech was underwhelming, which was probably better than the alternativeONE thing you can generally count on when the lanky figure of Barack Obama approaches a podium is that you will hear a good speech; and the more trouble he is in, th

The White House’s latest salvo against banks misses the targetFOR investors the most dangerous words in the English language are “this time it’s different.” For governments and financial policemen they are “never again.” Yet that is what Barac

The U.S. is working on a fast Haitian rescue with a handful of Coast Guard cutters, a hospital ship-the USNS Comfort-and aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. Here is how the rescue effort will go down.

On Barack Obama's first day in the White House, he introduced the toughest ethics rules of any recent president—rules he promised would "close the revolving door" between government and the corporate world. Maybe he should have invested in a really good

Struggling to get Israeli-Palestinian talks restarted, the President's special envoy gets advice from a discreet group of veterans of previous failed attempts

In the days after the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts, President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting, delivered a weekly address, and sent out a Twitter message repeating over and over that he has been "fighting" for the middle class. In his first St

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. The research for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. One quiet, wintry night last year in the eastern Afghan town of Khost, a young government employee named Ismatullah s

A high-profile legal duo is taking the case against Prop 8 all the way to the Supreme Court. Here's a look at the arguments so far

When jobs are disappearing and people are losing their insurance, guaranteed health care coverage and affordable policies are entirely to the point.

The Senate has confirmed Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve

The Institute of International Finance, a bankers’ group, reckons that net flows of private capital to emerging economies fell to $435.2 billion in 2009, a fall of more than a third from $667.1 billion in 2008. It expects them to surge to $721.6 billion

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