On Monday, USA Today ran a front-page article on the soon-to-be-released book chronicling a series of secret interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch held with President Bill Clinton throughout the Clinton presidency. The piece focused ...

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. "War is peace" was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in "Newspeak," the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystop...

The climate fight in Congress this year has been dominated not by arguments about science, but economics. Opponents of cap-and-trade legislation have issued dire predictions that regulating carbon will cripple the economy and inflict soaring energy...

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Let others deal with the details of President Obama's Afghan speech, with the on-ramps and off-ramps, those 30,000 US troops going in and just where they will be deployed, the benchmarks for...

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Let others deal with the details of President Obama's Afghan speech, with the on-ramps and off-ramps, those 30,000 US troops going in and just where they will be deployed, the benchmarks for...

"Man, I feel intimidated in this place," Williams Ajayi said, blinking at the fancy furniture and rows of specialty soaps of the Protea Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria. He'd never seen his country's capital before, let alone a cush hotel room. When I met...

"Man, I feel intimidated in this place," Williams Ajayi said, blinking at the fancy furniture and rows of specialty soaps of the Protea Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria. He'd never seen his country's capital before, let alone a cush hotel room. When I met...