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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.…Whenever the people are well-informed, they can …

Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be …

Cancun, Mexico - Further delay in international action to slow warming would endanger vast numbers of lives in the world's poorest countries, but Cancun can still deliver decisive progress …

Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion – excluding Arab East Jerusalem – should go down as one of the most …

DREAM Act in Jeopardy

In 1948, the idea of interracial marriage in the United States was almost unimaginable. The few polls on this topic at the time showed that Americans were nearly unanimous …

A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don't bet on it.

A federal judge in California on Tuesday ordered the immediate destruction of 256 acres of Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) sugar beet seedlings because the crops were planted in violation …

Madrid, Spain - In his novel “The Stone Raft,” Portugal’s Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago imagines the Iberian Peninsula breaking away from mainland Europe and drifting off into the …

Washington - From Ohio, Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy describes “the worry, the anguish and sometimes despair” among her constituents and urges President Obama to spend more time with people …