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One of the key controversies about fracking is the chemical makeup of the fluid that is pumped deep into the ground to break apart rock and release natural gas. Some companies have been …

Washington - “Los immigrantes, somos importantes!” protesters chanted Wednesday outside the Supreme Court. Immigrants, we are important. Others carried signs that said, “Exporting illegals = importing jobs for Americans!” Inside …

Even though we are 5 percent of the world's population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners in the world.

(Photos by David Bacon)On Tuesday, April 24 in San Francisco, thousands of angry homeowners, immigrants, union members, Occupiers and community groups converged on the annual shareholders meeting of Wells …

A key reason that it's relatively easy to scaremonger about predictions regarding Social Security's finances decades in the future is that the language often used to talk about Social …

The House of Representatives is expected to vote by the end of the week on a controversial cybersecurity bill that has received a veto threat from the White House …

Joann Cross didn't travel from El Paso, Texas, to Washington, DC, to get arrested. In fact, she's always believed that getting arrested was the wrong way to make a …

With the threat of life in prison and the ideal of government transparency looming heavily in the background, Pfc. Bradley Manning's hired defense attorney and attorneys representing WikiLeaks founder …

A civil rights lawyers has proposed a new framework for understanding why the Arizona immigration law SB1070 currently making its way through the Supreme Court should be unconstitutional - …

(Image: Joel Pett, Carto­onArt­s Inter­natio­nal / The New York Times­ Synd­icate)In general, I'm a numbers and concepts guy, not a feelings guy. When I go after someone like Paul …