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Washington - At least we don't have to pretend anymore. Arizona's passing of that mean-spirited new immigration law wasn't about high-minded principle or the need to maintain public order. …

Alfalfa is the fourth largest crop grown in the United States and Monsanto wants to control it. On April 27, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that …

What will it take to create a democratic healthy media? You know how dire the situation is: daily newspapers are closing, Washington bureaus are shuttering, whole areas of federal, …

Beijing - As world powers wrangle this month at the United Nations about how to handle Iran's nuclear plans, China is attempting to balance its thirst for Iranian oil …

Throughout the financial reform debate, the finance industry has waged an unprecedented assault on the democratic process, spending an estimated $1.4 million per day to influence Congress and hiring …

The U.S. government's rhetoric on atrocities in Africa doesn't match its long record of supporting authoritarian regimes.

The so-called “flash crash” on Wall Street last week, in which the Dow Jones industrial average dropped by almost 1,000 points, may be the fault of a single trader …

Disposability “As the social state is displaced by the market, a new kind of politics is emerging in which some lives, if not whole groups, are seen as …

Too many of us hold back from community involvement because we think we don't know enough to act on our beliefs, or don't have the standing or confidence to …

“The phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the Arab world is wrong, misleading and causes damage to the Palestinian cause.” In his new book, Lebanese-French academic Gilbert Achcar grapples for …