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One Hundred Thirty Cities Across the US Protest on Anniversary of Citizens United
On Friday, activists in more than 130 cities in 46 states across the country “occupied” their federal courts on the eve of the second anniversary of Citizens United v. …
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National Science Board Report: US Losing Research and Development Jobs to Asia
The United States is losing ever more jobs and becoming ever less competitive as our universities are cut back and companies move R&D jobs to Asia. We lost 687,000 …
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TransCanada: No More Than 6,000 Pipeline Workers on the Job “on Any Given Day“
As the Feb. 21 deadline approaches for the Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the project's supporters have launched a new advertising campaign touting its job …
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Decline “Friend” Request: Social Media Meets 21st Century Statecraft in Latin America
A Senate report released in October 2011 urging the US government to expand the use of social media as a foreign policy tool in Latin America offers another warning …
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BREAKING: Newt Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary
Newt Gingrich upset GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney in South Carolina tonight, beating him by what will likely be a comfortable margin in the the state’s Republican presidential primary. …
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Blacks Face Bias in Bankruptcy, Study Suggests
Blacks are about twice as likely as whites to wind up in the more onerous and costly form of consumer bankruptcy as they try to dig out from their …
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Study Challenges Supreme Court’s Image as Defender of Free Speech
Washington - The Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the conventional wisdom goes, is exceptionally supportive of free speech. Leading scholars and practitioners have called the Roberts court …
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Was Charge Leveled Against Military Lawyer to Justify New Guantanamo Inspection Policy?
This is the front cover of a pamphlet produced by a Kuwaiti-based anti-Guantanamo organization to try and win the release of two Kuwaiti prisoners, pictured on the cover of …
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Obama Administration Approves Rule That Guarantees Near-Universal Contraceptive Coverage
Today, in a huge victory for women’s health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans, …
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One Million Recall Signatures Versus One Partisan Judge
Fed up with the hard-right's oligarchic, union busting agenda, on Tuesday, opponents of Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker (R) delivered a Recall petition to the state's Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.) …