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On October 21, a case of cholera was identified in Haiti for the first time in at least 50 years. The disease spread rapidly through the Artibonite River basin, …

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett was the winner of the 2007 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club of America, and was a finalist for the 2008 …

The Story of Electronics employs the Story of Stuff style to explore the high-tech revolution's collateral damage—25 million tons of e-waste and counting, poisoned workers and a public left …

First, it was the new $200 printer — within hours of being extracted from its bubble-wrap womb, the contraption started making an awful wheezing sound. Then it was the …

Karachi, Pakistan - Taliban fighters attacked an anti-terrorism police compound today, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 100 here in Pakistan's largest city, according to police …

One year after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans for a wide-reaching overhaul of America’s long-mismanaged immigration detention system, human rights and immigration advocacy organizations are …

A big obstacle to turning Americans on to the idea of action to support the human rights of Palestinians is that the situation appears to many as, a) far …

Washington - “Why don't they fight back?” That's the question I've been hearing from the Democratic Party's stunned and dispirited base. For the past month, I've been on a …

Senator Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles appeared to have largely ignored economic reality in developing the proposals they presented to the public today. The country is suffering from 9.6 …

We have just begun the tenth year of occupation in Afghanistan. Despite the declared “end” to combat operations, American soldiers are still dying in Iraq as encounters with insurgents …