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Taliban attacks on Tuesday night and Wednesday killed eight US soldiers within a 24-hour period, highlighting the intensifying insurgency waged by the Taliban, which this year is carrying out …

This interview with Raj Patel, award-winning writer, activist and academic, was originally featured as a two part series on Nourishing the Planet. Location: San Francisco Can you please explain …

The Death Gusher in the Gulf should tell us to end offshore drilling forever. The reason is simple: Systemic risk! Better regulations won't end what went wrong: Corporate greed, …

Nikolas Kozloff is the author of “Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the US and Revolution,” a Financial Times Best Book in 2008. An expert on South …

On June 15, 2010 the US Department of Energy announced that a group of federal and independent scientists convened by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior …

Washington - It's been about six weeks since funding for extended jobless benefits expired, and by the end of this week, an estimated 2.5 million people will have lost …

Washington - Sometimes an obscure lobbying fight tells a larger story. This phenomenon is playing out right now on the unlikely issue of infant formula — and the broader, …

I've never heard a shot fired in anger. But I might know a little bit more about war than Sebastian Junger.

As a lifelong Red Sox fan, my perspective on George Steinbrenner is slanted. To me, he was the leader of the “evil empire,” the annoying, meddlesome, yet admittedly successful …

My eyes are burning as I type this. We've just returned from spending the day down in Barataria, located about an hour's drive south of New Orleans. The community …