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The state-owned Bank of North Dakota is credited with the state's relatively healthy economy. (Photo: banknd.nd.gov) In an article in The New York Times on August 19th …

The professional carwash industry is a $23 billion enterprise, one which more and more Americans make use of every year. If you visited a carwash lately – which judging …

Gretchen Morgenson’s must-read article, “Attorney General of N.Y. Is Said to Face Pressure on Bank Foreclosure Deal,” reveals how the Obama administration is putting pressure on attorneys general, especially …

In June 2012, there will be a follow-up to the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro twenty years earlier. The upcoming summit (Rio + 20) will focus on …

[R]eality becomes so distorted that The Australian was able to state earlier this month, “it is in keeping with this newspaper’s rationalist pedigree that we have long accepted the …

Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, gives an opening speech in Washington DC for those who are risking arrest against the tar sand pipe line with him. (Photo: …

For many of us, the days before search engines, social networking and constant wireless access to information and entertainment seem like a lifetime ago. But for those young adults …

Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue. The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean proportions, as evidenced …

Police barricade protesters to separate the public from those in the tar sands sit-in on August 20th, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Amy Dewan / tarsandaction) The …

Later today, California’s Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold a two-hour hearing on the nomination of Goodwin Liu to the state supreme court. Goodwin is widely expected to be …