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Accounting for the costs to society of environmental degradation is important, but it's also vital to account for women's under-compensated labor in a serious challenge to capitalism's profitability.

Doctors may be overlooking a significant risk factor in disease.

This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.

The real world is much larger. It deserves a bit of effort to get an accurate sense of what is happening to it, and to you.

As private prisons become the norm in the United States, it's time society takes a look at the institution and asks,

If the populist movement spreads, it wonu2019t be a Beltway phenomenon. As Occupy demonstrated, it will disrupt business as usual.

Since fighting broke out on December 15, about 500 are thought to have been killed and about 800 wounded.

To prevent increasingly dangerous climate change, says Bruce Melton, the public and our leaders must be convinced to act decisively and robustly because, as his review of the latest …

Peace talks are not advanced calculus, but basic addition.

On the day of the Swift raids, more than 300 US-born children came home to find at least one of their parents gone.