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The Geopolitics of Election Approval: The US Response to Honduras and Venezuela
US National Lawyers Guild election overseers compare and contrast presidential elections in Honduras and Venezuela and describe the United States' embrace of the results of the more problematic of …
Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction
Dahr Jamail explores what climate scientists just beyond the mainstream are thinking about how climate change will affect life on this planet.
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Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Found in Water at Fracking Sites
A study of hydraulic fracturing sites in Colorado finds substances that have been linked to infertility, birth defects and cancer.
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Despite Glitches, Obamacare Likely to Succeed
Paul Krugman: Anyone counting on Obamacare to collapse is probably making a very bad bet.
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Henry A. Giroux | Radical Democracy Against Cultures of Violence
When aesthetic and economic criteria displace moral considerations and the search for intense pleasure and profits replaces the search for justice, a police state thrives, says Henry A. Giroux.
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Gunpowder and Blood on Their Cold, Dead Hands
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: "'Thou Shalt Not Kill,' but if you do, hide behind the Second Amendment - made holier and more sacrosanct by the NRA than God's …
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Goodies for the Rich, Pennies for the Poor
Republicans don't give a rat's ass about working-class Americans, but they want you to think they do.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Japan Not Capable of Decommissioning Fukushima Alone, and More
According to experts, Japan is not capable of decommissioning the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant without outside help, and more.
Brave New Foundation’s Series on Prison Profiteering
Each part of this series by the Brave New Foundation exposes an aspect of corruption in the American prison systems in the name of profit.
Statement by Edward Snowden on Being Honored as a Leading Global Thinker by Foreign Policy Magazine
A statement from Edward Snowden was read at a reception last night in Washington, DC.