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It is official now. The Ron Paul campaign, despite surging in the Iowa polls, is not worthy of serious consideration, according to a New York Times editorial; “Ron Paul …

On November 5, 40-year-old Antonio Montejano was holiday shopping with his four children at a Los Angeles mall and unintentionally dropped a $10 bottle of cologne that his young …

Last month, Maine voters delivered a major rebuke to Gov. Paul LePage (R) and the Republican-held legislature when they approved a referendum restoring election day voting registration rights in …

Finally there's some good news for the millions of Americans who must to live on pay at or close to the legal minimum wage. Eight states are raising their …

A group of protesters at the Occupy Oakland action to shut down the Port of Oakland on December 12, 2011. (Photo: Queena Kim) The Occupy movement is …

(Photo: Paul Jacobson / Flickr) How do we measure violence? The question has come up because of recent studies by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, featured …

2011 will be remembered as the year the world woke up and began to fight back against a tiny minority that had held on to control—of money, of political …

(Photo: Rob Stinnett / Flickr) It wasn't that long ago that the act of “gift giving” didn't require a maddening trip to Walmart or a desperate online …

Guatemala City - Relatives of former military personnel and businessmen are bringing lawsuits against ex guerrillas and journalists in Guatemala in connection with the 1960-1996 civil war – a …

2011 marked a banner year in the Republican war on woman’s health. Close to 1,000 anti-abortion bills sped through state legislatures as the GOP-led House led a “comprehensive and …