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[This report appears in the Spring 2010 issue of World Policy Journal and is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.]

Last Sunday marked the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, cutting short his dream. But it also marked the launch of …

In applying to political discourse the scientific discoveries of how concepts are embodied in our brains, George Lakoff and his associates have made an important contribution to how we …

Airtime: Friday, April 9, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).

Airtime: Friday, April 9, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).

The Washington Post reports that at least 200 people were buried under mounds of mud and feared dead on Thursday after a slum built atop a former landfill let …

Seven more state attorneys general jumped into the climate debate this week, this time arguing that any climate legislation must preserve the progress that states have made so far …

In 1996, only two years after Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected president of South Africa, acclaimed filmmaker Connie Field began working on an epic seven-part documentary series …

New York - The conspiracy mongers should be having a field day. Just a few months before the expiration of a fragile agreement granting the U.S. military access to …

So, finally the truth comes out ... sort of. After initially claiming that two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in a US Special Forces raid on an …