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May 24, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

When Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng and his family arrived in Greenwich Village from Beijing, Chai Ling was among the crowd cheering their arrival. In many ways, Chen was following in Chai's footsteps.

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May 24, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

One of the most reported and anticipated numbers in Washington is the unemployment rate. Currently, the official unemployment rate stands at 8.1 percent. Each month, this number is calculated by taking the number of people without

May 22, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

It's said that presidential campaigns are like war -- complete with spies infiltrating your operation. And Republicans have apparently encountered one of these.

His name is Fred Davis, a nephew to

May 21, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

May 31 is "World No Tobacco Day," an event sponsored by the World Health Organization that is devoted to reducing the use of tobacco.

While the goal is laudable, it's equally important to consider how we're reducing

May 17, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

"Hope." "Change." "Yes, we can." "A new Washington." All are slogans expounded by then-Sen. Obama during his 2008 bid for the presidency.

In 2008, candidate Obama referred to the Export-Import Bank as "little more than

May 16, 2012 -- 5:30 PM

A phoenix has risen from the ashes of the Occupy movement. As anger over the housing crisis wanes, protesters have returned home from their camps to find student loan bills -- one trillion dollars' worth. Ironically, it is now they who are looking for

May 15, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

When Barack Obama kicked off his presidential campaign this month, he chose Richmond as the place to do it, and former DNC chairman, former Virginia governor and Senate candidate Tim Kaine as the man to introduce him. Five days

May 15, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

MILWAUKEE - As they try to convince voters to oust Republican Gov. Scott Walker before the end of his term, liberals in Wisconsin have embraced the Democrats' national "war on women" theme. The local version they use is "Scott Walker

May 14, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

Progressive ideology has solidly controlled environmental science at least since the publication of Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" in 1962. But, somehow, one of the environmental sciences -- climatology -- managed to escape

May 13, 2012 -- 4:06 PM

When Washington Examiner reporter Liz Essley was writing her story on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority ("Airports board probed for

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