Only an America that continues to bathe in the mythology of innocence, a God-given exceptionalism and virtue destined to rule the Earth could have produced a Trump victory.

The one area where Barack Obama and a now GOP-controlled Senate might find room for compromise is trade, especially the approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Securing state power from the domestic population and securing concentrated private power are driving forces in policy formation.

From the health effects of smoking to weapons of mass destruction, the powers that be have told us some real whoppers over the years.

Did the Bush administration distort Saddam's weapons of mass destruction to drum up support for the war? And Chilean author Isabel Allende writes about two world-changing September 11ths.