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Yankton, South Dakota - Gary Schaeffer's grandkids ran to an overlook of Gavins Point Dam. “Ooh, man. Ooh.” Schaeffer followed and looked down in disbelief. …

Today is the anniversary of the day that the nation’s founders, gathered in Philadelphia a few miles from my house (which as it happens had already been standing for …

Yes, that was I standing before the U.S. Embassy in Athens on the eve of the July Fourth weekend holding the American flag in the distress mode — upside …

(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: Loz Flowers, Mickipedia) In the 1970s, social upsurge pulled millions of working-class women, including me, into the second wave of feminism. Sparked …

Rush-hour traffic on Interstate 405 in Los Angeles in 2006. The Obama administration is proposing regulations that will require new American cars and trucks to attain an average of …

(Photo: factoids) This is the age of corporatized politics. That means we may admire our leaders, but we can't depend on them. We're paying the price for …

Washington - This year, as the nation celebrates Independence Day, the sputtering U.S. economy offers a stark reminder that today we're more dependent upon foreigners than ever before. …

The Declaration of Independence is best remembered as a declaration of war, a war declared on the grounds that we wanted our own flag. The sheer stupidity and anachronism …

Yellowstone River, Billings, Montana. (Photo: ambimb) An ExxonMobil pipeline running under the Yellowstone River in south central Montana ruptured late Friday, spilling crude oil into the river …

(Image: Green Horizons) People of conscience face two crucial challenges today: Telling the truth about the dire state of the ecosphere that makes our lives possible, no …