In his book titled, Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State, McCoy chronicled over a century of US imperialism from the 1899–1902 Philippines conquest

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My own assumption is that economic statistics have been painting an unduly bleak picture of modest-income America . When we measure real incomes we use inflation indexes, which over time inevitably overstate inflation

Now is a good time to be coming home for Rahm Emanuel, says Raymond Sokolov in this week's Newsweek. The city has always been great—deprecating "Second City" references aside—but now it's finally hip.

What would a smoke-free America cost the government in lost tax revenue?

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Now is a good time to be coming home for Rahm Emanuel, Raymond Sokolov writes in this week's Newsweek. The city has always been great—with world-class urban architecture, food, music and shopping—but now it's

The 2009 results are out and St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner, so here's some the survey's key Irish-American numbers.

Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation told the Post that 94 percent of those killed are lower-level militants.

Mindful of this axiom, scores of operatives from groups such as Organizing for America (the campaign arm of that mayor's former boss) flocked to Madison. Pizzas orders came in from at least 14 foreign countries