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(Photo: james_gordon_los_angeles / Flickr) I wasn’t going to look at the news on Christmas Day. I had just had successfully prepared a Christmas Eve dinner for my …

Manchester, New Hampshire - No matter what happens in Iowa, Mitt Romney has a safety net in New Hampshire. And that could rank as the year's most …

Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp. performed what the company proclaimed was the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever. …

(Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times) Behind a mysterious December 22 Associated Press story about “finding of fact” by a District judge in Manhattan Friday …

Candidates for the Repub­lican presi­denti­al nomin­ation engag­ed in a debat­e at Fox News forum­. (Photo: Todd Heisl­er / Th­e New York Times­) One crucial thing you need …

We speak with acclaimed novelist Russell Banks, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for drawing on his working-class background to write about criminals, outcasts and revolutionaries. "I know that …

North Carolina is one of the few states in the country with public records of who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm, so it provides a rare …

I’ve been reading a lot of books lately, some of which I’ve mentioned here: The Submerged State by Suzanne Mettler, Invisible Hands by Kim Phillips-Fein, The Wealth and Poverty …

I’ve been watching the Occupy Movement from a distance these last several months, intentionally standing back so that I might observe the larger web of patterns shaping its unfolding …