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WASHINGTON (AP) — A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief: IRAN Last year’s nuclear deal with Tehran has removed for now the threat of a U.S.-Iranian military confrontation. But the deal rests...

Donald Trump's draconian immigration enforcement efforts face a basic challenge: the United States operates within an economic system that profits off immigrant labor. Immigrant labor is more vital to many industries than it's ever been before. Today...

Click here for reuse options! The decline of the white working class is a key part of the story. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right By Arlie Russell Hochschild New Press Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and...

By John Wagner, PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Bernie Sanders pledged to support presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a boisterous but at times awkward rally here Tuesday, more than a month after Clinton effectively clinched the nomination...

OBAMA-CLINTON-TRUMPERnomics WORKS! But only for the SUPER RICH! A recently completed study by economists Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman found that the share of national income received by the bottom half of the US population has been...