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Dear Senator Libous: I am writing today, and sending a copy of this letter to both the Albany and Binghamton offices, because I have called and left messages …

“With hydrofracking, a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene, and radioactive elements like radium, all …

(Image: Yale University Press) Zora Neale Hurston writes Janie Mae Crawford as an irrepressibly independent woman. Janie leaves the economic security of her emotionally deadening first marriage …

A few years ago, Roseanne Scotti traveled from New Jersey to New York City to buy clean needles. At a busy pharmacy in Manhattan, Scotti told a pharmacist that …

(Photo: Mark Engler) “Prisoners of Guantanamo turn right,” yelled the marshal. “Prisoners forward!” In response to the call, several hundred people dressed in orange jumpsuits …

Moyers: On Democracy Congress Takes a Step or Two Forward, Two Steps BackMonday 26 March 2012by: Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed

French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during a joint news conference with President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, March 30, 2010. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New …

Bill Moyers is returning to public television this month with “Moyers & Company.” (Photo: Chad Batka / The New York Times) On Democracy: Is This Land Made …

The Freddie Mac building in McLean, Virginia. The federal government took over the corporation, along with Fannie Mae, in 2008. (Photo: Andrew Councill For The New York Times). …

There is a full-blown debate going on in, of all places, the Republican Party about the failings of the governing, corporate-sponsored kleptocracy. Not so on the Democratic side. Spared …