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It has been one of those life-affirming weeks. When something that has been a part of you for decades finally gets the attention and admiration you’ve felt it has …

Demonstrators hold signs outside the Bankia bank center during a previous housing protest in Madrid, April 18, 2012. (Photo: Carlos Lujan / International Herald Tribune)At least 100,000 protesters angered …

The primary victory of a Tea Party-blessed candidate in Indiana illustrates how closely Republican hopes for a majority in the Senate are tied to candidates who pledge to infuse …

The history of equality from antiquity onward reveals that the notion of equality has been considered a constitutive feature of justice whether in its formal, proportional or moral sense. …

If you live in Columbus, Ohio, my sympathy. Don’t get me wrong. Columbus is a wonderful town – the state capital, birthplace of the late great humorist James Thurber, …

Occupy Wall Street protesters march at Zuccotti Park on November 5, 2011. (Photo: David Shankbone) It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch at this point to say …

Last week’s media coverage of the Obama administration’s newly-proposed fracking rules focused so heavily on how drilling companies would have to disclose the chemicals they use that it largely …

“London River,” directed by Rachid Bouchareb, starring Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyate.In English and French with English subtitles, 90 minutes.US release December 2011. Premiered at the Berlin International Film …

Some time ago a woman invented Mother’s Day. Julia Ward Howe. She called on mothers to raise their sons well, to not be tools for war, as she …

San Francisco - A crisis has hit California’s great outdoors. Seventy of our 279 California state parks are set to close on July 1, 2012, because of budget cuts. …