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BP is on the verge of escaping headlines, and if you're ready to forget about the oil spill, fine. But disasters just like the Gulf spill are playing out …

On my way to the Los Alamos National Laboratory a few years ago, I found it listed in a New Mexico phone book—under “University of California.” Since the early …

Reviewed: El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City, by John Ross (New York: Nation Books), 512 pages.

If the U.S. economy eventually recovers and current trends continue, U.S. workers won't be celebrating in the streets. The corporate establishment has made it clear that a “strong recovery” …

Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 131,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Federal government employment …

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Washington, D.C. - Like a lover gone astray returning to declare his love, President Barack Obama appeared yesterday at the executive committee of the AFL CIO, the country's largest …

Dear Secretary of State Clinton, I am a retired US Army reserve colonel with 29 years in the US Army and Army Reserves, and a former US diplomat …

Sometimes politics and nonfiction writing can seem altogether too intense and we feel like we need a break. For some, like myself, reading fiction is a guilty pleasure that …

Abdul Shakeel Basha, known popularly as Shakeel to his friends, was arrested on various charges on June 17. The major charge is that he, along with his other friends, …