Latest

The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago. A federal development program intended to help poor communities, the New Market Tax Credit, instead funnels up to ten billion taxpayer dollars to big …

The third week of February, attorneys from New Orleans-based and national organizations brought a federal civil rights complaint against Louisiana's 205-year-old “crime against nature” statute, a law designed to …

Quake Hits Japan After Workers in Nuclear Plant Fend Off Explosion

If “democracy” is understood to mean a process of inclusion, equalizing diverse peoples such that power and resources are distributed fairly, then democratic movements have a potentially positive role …

The starchy cassava root has long been an important ingredient in everything from tapioca pudding and ice cream to paper and animal feed. But last year, 98 …

David Koch, a billionaire known for his contributions to conservative causes. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives from …

Washington - Political moderates and on-the-fencers have had it easy up to now on budget issues. They could condemn “both sides,” and insist on the need for “courage” in …

For years, “not in my backyard” has been the battle cry of residents in Cape Cod who stand opposed to an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The …

(Photo: NOAA/NASA GOES Project; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company (a …

Washington - Despite the efforts by Republican lawmakers to scrap President Barack Obama's funding for high-speed rail projects, 24 states have submitted applications for additional money, the Department of …