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In spite of efforts to commercialize it, March 8 International Women's Day is the day we recognize women's movements for gender equality.

This week, the daughter of Chile's Salvador Allende, the socialist president who was assassinated in a 1973 US-backed coup, took office as Senate President alongside Michelle Bachelet, marking a …

The American Petroleum Institute and other groups have been directing state legislators to make statements in favor of the pipeline.

Pesticides are part of life in the California's Salinas Valley, “America's Salad Bowl.” But a growing body of research suggests their use is linked to various health problems.

We are just entering the era when high-tech companies own, control and actively participate in mainstream media. Is that a good thing?

John Wesley Powell and FDR warned about the California and Colorado Basin droughts and proposed ecological solutions that Congress ignored. We are beginning to reap the whirlwind.

In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.

Militarized police, sophisticated surveillance, and normal citizens with little say in what goes on. The US has all the trappings of an all-powerful police state.

Poetry by David Krieger on the similarities between the start of World War I and the situation in Ukraine

This American Hustle allows politicians, the media, and the public to wash their collective hands of actually doing anything except demanding that the lazy poor step up to the …