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Police outnumbered demonstrators Monday as hundreds took to Tampau2019s streets to protest the Republican convention.

Paying firms not to pollute gives rise to a perverse incentive.

“Tim Griffin should be in jail.” That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review.

Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The impact of Katrina and government bungling continue to inflict major pain on the people left behind. It is impossible …

A perfect alignment of advantageous factors enabled opponents of capital punishment to place its abolition on the ballot for the first time in California.

President Obama has promised to end the Bush tax cuts on income in excess of $250,000 when they expire at the end of the year, with his aides saying …

Maybe the flight of those Kiwis should be thought of as a small omen, even if they are departing as decorously, quietly, and flightlessly as possible.

Josh Foxu2019s documentary u201cGaslandu201d triggered a groundswell of opposition to fracking, the technology driving Americau2019s gas-drilling boom. Now, as the industry hits back, Fox and other Columbians are digging …

The Great Depression was a real moment of truth for the capitalist West because it suggested to the open-minded that the free market ideology was seriously flawed.

Scientific research into the way we think explains the reasons decent people wind up supporting horrific policies.