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U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier decided that in the civil trial against BP for their oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil company’s history of accidents and …

From left: Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich before taking part in a Republican presidential …

Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, walks through the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., April 26, 2011. (Photo: Jenn Ackerman / The New York Times) Rumors and …

In this great meritocracy of ours, those of us who’ve made it through college are encouraged to feel like we’re something special. And it’s no doubt true that a …

1. Death Penalty Repeal The proposed Death Penalty Repeal initiative would abolish execution as the maximum punishment for murder and replaces it with life imprisonment without …

(Photo: ~*Leah*~ / Flickr) In advance, I apologize to my grown kids for what might be, for them, an embarrassing discussion about their mother's sex life and …

(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: hans van den berg, The U.S. Army) One would think that, by now, America would have made the connection between war …

When the black unemployment numbers dropped so steeply in January—from 15.7 to 12.7 percent—a lot of analysts were scratching their heads to figure out why. One told us that …

I can still remember when I first realized how naïve I was in thinking—hoping—that laying out the “facts” would suffice to change politicized minds, and especially Republican ones. It …

The concept of endless economic growth, accepted as sacrosanct by both U.S. mainstream political parties, and internalized as the dominant mode of mind by the general population of the …