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Robin Hahnel makes a plea to the environmental movement as she writes that they are “ making a serious strategic mistake by categorically rejecting international carbon trading.”

Last year, we wrote extensively about photo ID laws and the Supreme Court's decision to strike a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now, with gubernatorial …

"When you oppose war, not because it murders, and not because it assaults the rights of the foreign places attacked, but because it costs too much in U.S. lives …

The idea of using nuclear power in the tar sands has taken flight once again in our own era, though this time disguised as a Green Energy solution.

Is there any hope for relief from this bleak formula? Part of the answer depends upon whether at some point the veil of denial begins to shred.

The classic problems of early, rapid capitalist industrialization are obvious daily in the new centers.

Today, Ireland is under a different sort of tyranny, one imposed by the banks and the troika - the EU, ECB and IMF.

Promoters of this hyper-capitalism, who dominate the U.S. media debate, simply blame the poor for poverty.

America's top execs don't have the time to party. They're too busy waging a corporate holy war against what may be the most promising check yet on executive pay …

An insensitivity toward the problems poor people face, researchers have shown, reflects a deeper psychological shift that extreme inequality makes all but inevitable.