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Haitian women have been increasingly vocal and active in social, political and economic issues since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986. Though it has not come easily, …

Gaza—With the never-ending stream of news about Israeli incursions, crushing poverty, skyrocketing unemployment and scarce health care, success stories coming out of Gaza may seem an oxymoron. But they …

Just when it was beginning to repair its reputation with its high-profile case against Goldman Sachs, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suffers another major blow: Senior staffers there …

The leak of a sensitive policy memorandum from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to the president's national security adviser points to both a serious lack of discipline within the …

Washington - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element …

Marijuana was by no means the first boom crop to delight my home county of Humboldt, here in Northern California, five-hours' drive from San Francisco up Route 101. Leaving …

An article published today in TIME magazine explores that little medication with which so many of us are intimately familiar: the pill. The piece is TIME’s cover story, commemorating …

Obama calls Arizona immigration bill “misguided.” The Washington Post reports that President Obama urged Congress today to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, saying that inaction would lead to "misguided …

For a number of years, the running joke about me among my friends was that, because I write for a living, I'm a bum. They didn't really mean it, …

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