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Almost 47 years to the day after a peaceful voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, ended in violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a federal court in Philadelphia struck …

Last May, AFL-CIO President Trumka declared labor’s political independence by pledging to use the power of Super PACS to reach out to nonunion voters and build labor's own political …

The bully came to Washington. The American president told him in no uncertain terms that the United States would not support a military attack on Iran at this moment. …

Japan is still struggling to deal with the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, and will be for a long time. This makes the triple disaster of March 11, 2011 …

Johnny Brekeen, a truck driver who helped gather signatures to put proposition 26 on the ballot, steps out of his truck after handing out pamphlets at the University of …

(Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) For most of her life, Frances Fox Piven has worked as a professor of social sciences and activist far away from public …

A soldier identified as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, appeared in this photo and in an article in High Desert Warrior, a military Web site, in 2011. (Photo: Spc. …

The news just keeps getting worse in Afghanistan for the United States. Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project has warned for years that the premises of a counterinsurgency there …

Thom Hartmann here – on the news… You need to know this.  The largest online protest in the history of the Internet may have derailed SOPA and PIPA earlier …

(Photo: Paulo Ordoveza / Flickr) Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic …