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People at Camp Chaves in the Carrefour neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 9, 2011. A vast majority of Haitians driven into tent cities and makeshift camps by the January …

The American Electric Power coal plant in New Haven, W.Va., in September 2009. As Congress debates legislation to slow global warming by limiting emissions, engineers are tinkering with ways …

In just under two months Russia’s increasingly diverse opposition movement has held three larger than expected rallies in the center of Moscow. Each one has defied expectations. The first, …

Supporters wave Hamas flags to welcome released prisoners in Ramallah, West Bank, December 18, 2011. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The New York Times) Hamas may be headed …

(Photo: davidNallah / Flickr) Honduras has become a human rights disaster. The country now has the world’s highest murder rate. And impunity for political violence is the …

“Hell no, we won't go.” Active duty service people, reservists and members of the National Guard are acting on this battle cry from the Vietnam era. The …

For the first time in my journalism career, during one week I wrote four stories about workers winning tough fights. The victories include GE and Cablevision workers unionizing after several failed organizing attempts, …

Even in an Occupy world, most Americans don’t know exactly how the 1% does what it does. The mainstream media hasn’t explained it, and the 1% likes things that …

Thanks to a lobbying effort from the US Chamber of Commerce, New York Rep. Michael Grimm's attempt to eviscerate hard-fought whistleblower reforms included in the Dodd-Frank Act is gaining …

At a time when it’s become a cliché to say that Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation — drawing long overdue attention to the struggles of …