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Food insecurity is at its highest since December 2020, while SNAP has simultaneously been weakened

Forget the budget crisis hysteria. Obama has sterner challenges in child poverty, health care and global warming

The celebrity chef tries to restart her career, but she needs to do better

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John McCain's impulsive, inspired and angry ride misses a few turns before getting back on the road. But can he catch up?

Playwright Katori Hall gives us a gaze from the women onstage at the world around them, and the view is riveting

Learning to stop worrying and to love the fiscal “cliff”

Everything you wanted to know about the coming crisis but were too embarrassed to ask

According to the publisher of a new report, "people run out of money" eventually

On "Meet the Press," Obama finally lays responsibility for the fiscal cliff mess on Republicans

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The Northern California firestorm has already devoured at least 1,500 structures, making it among the state's worst

Obama's locked in a game of chicken with the House GOP. But the worst thing he can do is extend tax cuts until 2013