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George Lakoff has many talents. But he cannot read hearts and minds. When he wrote recently that Barack Obama “knows in his heart” that acting on empathy "is the …

There were hearings on Capitol Hill this week regarding the Gulf oil disaster, and virtually everyone involved - from witnesses to experts to government officials - had a grand …

“There's a dead dolphin on this beach,” Mother Jones' Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It's one snapshot of the harm visited on the Gulf Coast by the BP …

As the U.S. Senate today debates whether to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, it’s worth considering what would happen if every country in the world …

Until quite recently, it seemed that Turkey had a clearly defined role in the Middle East, from the standpoint of US policy. They were the “good Muslims,” who were …

The dust bowl of the 1930s is symbolic of the violence unleashed in rural America and the rest of the world by industrialized farming or agribusiness, which mechanized what …

News estimates of the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the leaking BP well may be as high as 53.6 million to 64.3 million gallons if the …

Washington - Congress headed home Thursday for a four-day break, after failing again to extend jobless benefits for an estimated 325,000 people, fund summer jobs for at-risk youths or …

Washington - While U.S. officials insist they are making progress in reversing the momentum built up by the Taliban insurgency over the last several years, the latest news from …

Scott Roeder is now serving a life term for murdering abortion doctor George Tiller. But did he really act alone?