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Federal officials have given companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country.

In hindsight, there may have been no better way to bookend a trip to the 2012 biennial conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) than by visiting Beijing …

David Vine decided to make sense of what garrisoning the planet means to our pocketbooks.

The Progressive Caucus has laid down these six principles for tax reform.

They missed the housing bubble that put us in these dire straits. Now they expect us to trust their demands for social welfare cuts.

This essay will appear in “Intoxication,” the Winter 2012 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine. The question …

Just last Monday News Corp. lobbyists visited the FCC chairmanu2019s office and pushed him to relax the ownership rules even further.

ABORTION AND the struggle for a woman's right to choose is taking center stage on both sides of the Irish border, in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern …

Donu2019t be overwhelmed by the hype coming out of Wall Street and the White House, both of which would like the public to believe things are going quite well.

A bold new threat to the economic status quo brings on a press blackout.