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United Nations — For all its flaws, the United Nations sometimes reflects the world as it's supposed to. This week it held up a pretty accurate mirror of a …

Dodgy Voting Systems. Luddite Judges. Stressed Out, Arrogant Election Staff. - Small Wonder Vote Counts Are Often Wrong. In an era of instant news when Twitter, Facebook and …

Editor's Note: A Teenage Activist... This Girl's Soapbox is a blog created by Elora Malama to document her senior project about the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. As …

Earlier this week, thousands of fish died and floated to the surface of Bayou Robinson in the Plaquemines Parish area of southern Louisiana. The massive die-off was the third …

The Pentagon has announced a $60 billion arms package to the repressive family dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, the largest arms sale of its kind in history. Rejecting the broad …

There won't be any national or international movement on climate policy for the rest of this year, at the very least. And while Washington waits to act on climate …

Washington - The House of Representatives may take a politically explosive vote before November’s congressional elections on whether to extend tax cuts for individuals who earn less than $200,000 …

Here's a fact that even drug policy reform advocates can acknowledge: California's 2010 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana does, indeed, pose a real threat, as conservative culture warriors insist. …

A new film, entitled “The Barrel of a Gun” was unveiled in Philadelphia on September 21. The film is officially endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and …

More private contractors than soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, the first time in history that corporate casualties have outweighed military losses on America’s battlefields. …