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The New York City Council has approved the use of municipal identification cards that will provide its nearly half a million undocumented residents with a way to prove their …

To end the violence there must be radical reform of the school and prison moderated by Marc Steiner.

It's quite a shock when a former Bush Administration official comes out in favor of a climate change plan even stronger than the president's, and more.

Environmental activist leaders from around the world and their supporters met in Washington, DC, to discuss land grabs and other issues, continuing the work of assassinated activist Chico Mendes.

Many of the millennial activists who briefly turned the Arab world upside down and provoked so many changes are putting their energies into non-governmental organizations.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government may not require certain businesses to provide their employees with health insurance that covers contraception which offends the owner's religious beliefs.

Former NASA chief scientist Dr. Waleed Abdalati talks about the melting Greenland ice sheet, indisputable evidence supporting climate change and urgent need for an honest conversation about the earth's …

There's perilous little recognition in the US of how much of the rise in gang violence and drug wars is the direct result of NAFTA.

Undocumented college students benefit temporarily from a new program protecting them from deportation, but a more permanent solution is needed.

If the Indian drug industry makes the patent system unviable, we may finally adopt a 21st century system for financing the development of new drugs.