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A police officer rests while demonstrators are arrested behind him. (Photo: a c o r n / Flickr) A political campaign by San Francisco’s well-heeled “property owners” …

Earlier this month, a tweet from Slate political reporter Dave Weigel saying “Gov. Scott Walker just left ATR/Norquist Xmas Party” was the first news to most Wisconsin residents that …

The San Francisco Chronicle's front-page headline “Governor to Oakland: ‘Keep the port open’ ” could have been gleaned from the newspaper's 1934 edition when Gov. Frank Merriam vowed to …

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California). (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times) The hard times that most Americans continue to experience don't seem to be making an …

Charity Crowell, 9, checks her school supplies at the trailer where she lives with her family in Asheville, N.C. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times) …

(Photo: james_gordon_los_angeles / Flickr) I wasn’t going to look at the news on Christmas Day. I had just had successfully prepared a Christmas Eve dinner for my …

Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp. performed what the company proclaimed was the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever. …

I’ve been watching the Occupy Movement from a distance these last several months, intentionally standing back so that I might observe the larger web of patterns shaping its unfolding …

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 …

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 …