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Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp. performed what the company proclaimed was the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever. …

I’ve been watching the Occupy Movement from a distance these last several months, intentionally standing back so that I might observe the larger web of patterns shaping its unfolding …

Finally there's some good news for the millions of Americans who must to live on pay at or close to the legal minimum wage. Eight states are raising their …

2011 will be remembered as the year the world woke up and began to fight back against a tiny minority that had held on to control—of money, of political …

2011 marked a banner year in the Republican war on woman’s health. Close to 1,000 anti-abortion bills sped through state legislatures as the GOP-led House led a “comprehensive and …

An elderly monk prays at the Monastery of the Virgin Mary, part of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Qosh, the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. (Photo: Shiho Fukada …

Katie O'Brien Mowery at her office during work at Network Hardware Resale in Goleta, California, December 1, 2011. (Photo: J. Emilio Flores / The New York Times) …

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, now a lobbyist, appears before a House Judiciary subcommittee in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. (Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times) …

In this country, shopping is not just a national pastime. Consumer spending, which makes up about 70 percent of the economy, is a sort of patriotic duty — never …

At the end of one of the most bizarre weather years in American history, climate research stands at a crossroads. Scientists say they could, in theory, do …