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By Karen Holmberg When the East is gold leaf beaten so thin the sky's pale violet shows through, I go to my garden to check the progress of its labors. The peony's fist has widened its fissure in earth. I stoop to assist, unkinking its wrist,...
By Larry Kotlikoff Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff makes the case that the program is $220 trillion in the hole. Counter-expert Alicia Munnell disagrees, and shows how little it would take to fill the hole. Photo by Flickr user...
An young attendee inspects a rifle Saturday during the 2013 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Houston. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. If there is one thing supporters and opponents of tougher gun laws can agree on, it's that their...
Watch Video A few years ago, Veronika Scott, now 23, set up a coat manufacturing business in a graffiti-covered building in an old Irish manufacturing neighborhood of Detroit. She had a few sewing machines and a drive to help the homeless. She...
Click to enlarge. People walk among some of the 500 one-meter tall statues of philosopher and revolutionary communist Karl Marx in Trier, Germany. The statues, created by Ottmar Hoerl, are part of an exhibition at the Museum Simeonstift Trier...
