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The site of a well for a hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” operation. The fracking industry's response to criticisms of its health impacts has been compared to that of the …

In the last few weeks, ThinkProgress has been documenting studies by political science professors Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal that show Republicans are both beholden to the 1 percent …

Larry Summers speaks at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2011. (Photo: Sebastian Derungs / World Economic Forum) Early …

I kept thinking to myself that when he got briefed on the history of Afghanistan and the oft-proven ability of Afghan “militants” to drive out foreign invaders — from …

New York - Forty-six years ago, at a Senate subcommittee hearing on migratory labour, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy listened in disgust as California's Kern County Sheriff explained the arrests …

Wow, the AARP must be taking lessons from the Democratic Party, that you can afford sell out your putative base if you do the bidding of really big moneyed …

Washington - A crisis of capitalism is supposed to create an opening for the political left. But in Europe, the place where the concept of left and right was …

Rio De Janeiro - In designing a new immigration policy, Brazil is caught between the need to attract skilled workers and professionals in order to meet the challenges posed …

Phoenix - Tony Diaz, aka “El Librotraficante” (or book smuggler) is arriving in Tucson on Friday with a truckload of Mexican-American books that were effectively banned from the Tucson …