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Just finished reading “Staley, the Fight for a New American Labor Movement” by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking, University of Illinois Press, 2009. I heartily recommend it for …

The Burma election this year is widely expected to reinforce the junta’s power. But some nonprofits support the vote, and dozens of political parties are taking part, in hopes …

Washington - Sen. Robert Byrd was very much a man of his turbulent era and a man of West Virginia, able to dramatically influence and shape policy for more …

What is the best way to prevent future disasters in the Gulf of Mexico? Break our addiction to oil. One year ago, President Barack Obama took the biggest single …

One year ago, on June 28, 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was awakened by gunfire. A coup was carried out by U.S.-trained military officers, including graduates of the infamous …

The New York Times' David Brooks minimized General Stanley McChrystal's remarks in Rolling Stone magazine as “kvetching.” For the Times' Maureen Dowd, McChrystal and his “smart-aleck aides” were merely …

Washington - The Supreme Court on Monday struck down Chicago's strict firearm ban in a landmark decision that casts numerous state and local gun laws into question. By 5-4, …

When Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela met at the beginning of the month, it appeared that relations between the US and …

What are the fundamental forces that drive human behavior? A group of evolutionary thinkers offer an answer by revising one of psychology’s most familiar images.

Let me begin by sharing some good news. Scattered here and there, in my country and in yours, the seeds of a new, more local, and more durable economy …