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Mexico City - Press advocates and newspaper editors say a campaign by criminal syndicates to kill journalists is drawing a dark curtain across swaths of Mexico. "We aren't reporting …

“Make poverty history!” A catchy slogan, and an admirable aim, it was adopted by world leaders at the United Nations summit in New York on the eve of the …

A leader of the country's drug reform movement, California has helped standardize marijuana use through policies at once progressive and compromising. Since the passage of Proposition 215 in 1996, …

Everybody can relax and stop worrying. After two years of race-baiting, fear-mongering and legislative roadblocking, the Republican Party has finally produced a blueprint that will undoubtedly fix everything. In …

President Barack Obama’s proposal for $50 billion in new spending to address the slowdown in the economic recovery is a good idea, but it is much too small. My …

Autumn 2010 is a time of disillusionment for many who deplore the USA's current political trajectory. Some who've been active for progressive causes are now gravitating toward hope that …

It’s been almost six months since President Obama signed the health care reform bill into law, and lately much of the news about it has focused on

In the wake of the 2008 presidential election, I remember often hearing that we had seen the realization of Dr. King’s dream. The finality of that statement should have …

Ahead of settlement freeze decision, one woman documents their growth in the West Bank. Jerusalem, Israel - With a practiced motion, Hagit Ofran hides her camera under the seat, …