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The fact that the Occupy movement is unprecedented is quite appropriate. After all, it’s an unprecedented era and has been so since the 1970s, which marked a major turning …

For Vinnie Tuivaga, the offer was the answer to a prayer: A job in a luxury hotel in Dubai—the so-called Las Vegas of the Persian Gulf—making five times what …

President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at the Washington Convention Center, in Washington, April 27, 2012. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times) A secretive right-wing …

Washington, D.C. - Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that's what it was, given Sunday's election results in Europe. Perhaps I should also …

Athens - Election advertisements for Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party called for “taking the dirt out of the country,” “cleaning up Athens” and planting landmines along the borders to …

(Photo: jcarlosn)You pay a hidden premium every time they fill up your gas tank. The prices are high at the gas station, but part of the price you pay …

Natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Helen Slottje / shaleshock.org) The “Rogers” family signed a surface-use agreement with a fracking company in 2009 to close their 300-acre dairy …

Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S. More than a year after the triple …

In a world where governments are increasingly subservient to global finance capital, multinationals are gaining ground in the fight against state regulations that aim to protect the environment, public …

Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Agriculture proposed that ketchup be counted as a vegetable in the school …