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I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I don't care about the 2012 farm bill. Here's why. The sustainable food and agriculture movement has a lot of momentum …

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the …

Translated by Kristina Wischenkamper and Bill Scoble. After the retaking of the Bastille on 18 March by a mass of 120,000 people, the Left Front struck another blow on Tuesday …

Yes, we certainly need to cut unnecessary and frivolous federal spending, because...well, because it's unnecessary and frivolous. So Congress has targeted unnecessary oil subsidies and frivolous tax giveaways to …

If you sometimes find yourself at a bit of a loss of what to make of the on-again, off-again drumbeat for war with Iran, you should at least have …

The security and surveillance state does not deal in nuance or ambiguity. Its millions of agents, intelligence gatherers, spies, clandestine operatives, analysts and armed paramilitary units live in a …

This could well have been the want ad Esquire used to attract a writer for its story titled, “War Against Youth.” This lengthy piece is the best compendium of …

On March 11, communities around the world commemorated the first year of the still-evolving Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster with rallies, marches, moments of silence, and numerous retrospective reports and essays …

A major new research report – released this weekend by the renowned international consulting firm, IMS – finds conclusively that implementation of the proposed Volcker Rule would damage not just …

A marriage counselor friend once told me that he almost always knows by the end of the very first session whether he's being hired to guide a damaged couple …