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A view of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant. After the recent earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, new attention has been brought to the legal …

Soldiers of the Pakistani Army on patrol in South Waziristan, Pakistan, on October 29, 2009. (Photo: Tyler Hicks / The New York Times) Washington often acts …

Warren Prodded to Run for US Senate Seat in Massachusetts Even as activists and advocates are pushing for a recess appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the …

Movements for justice have historically been driven by a small percentage of any population. One percent of Americans nonviolently occupying Washington DC, could make Cairo and Madison and Madrid …

In 1984, YES! Publisher Fran Korten worked alongside Barack Obama's mother, Ann Soetoro, at the Ford Foundation's office in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ann's daughter, Maya, who was 14 at the …

Cap and trade is dead — long live the Green Dividend. That was the consensus of a conference on pricing carbon held late last year at Wesleyan …

Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Washington - Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the architect of his party's radical …

Rebel fighters walk toward the front line on Tripoli Street past trees that have had their branches blown off during heaving fighting in Misrata, Libya, May 4, 2011. (Photo: …

"There is only one person who should lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and that is the brilliant advocate who championed it, the remarkable administrator who has helped get …

(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Kudos to Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, for saying the …