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Environmental victories are so scarce these days that you can’t blame eco-activists for trumpeting any good news — even when the news turns out to be mostly smoke and …

Deficit theater is coming to DC tomorrow, with a well-funded "fiscal summit." The plot summary is that we have Deficit Trouble - Right Here In River City! so to fix it we need …

For the last half-century, capitalism has been a taboo subject in the United States. Among politicians, journalists, and academicsu2014and in public conversation generallyu2014the word has been avoided or else …

I haven’t been writing about the JPMorgan debacle because, well, everyone else is writing about it. One theme that has stuck out for me, however, has been everyone’s reflexive …

It was fitting that while President Obama and his Hollywood apostles broke fundraising records at a sumptuous $40,000 per plate dinner at George Clooneyu2019s place, word of JPM Chaseu2019s …

I had never noticed Bayview myself, having passed that stretch of Manhattan hundreds of times. On Saturday evening, however, to mark the eve of Mother's Day, I stood outside …

Rebekah Brooks was told by prosecutors on Tuesday that she, her husband and four others will face charges of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and theneck-and-neck opinion polls are pouring in.  But …

In light of the new research, several components of no excuses education reform are likely to increase the current problems with social and educational equity, instead of addressing them.

Oakland police are currently investigating the April 29 fatal shooting of Brandy Martell, a 37-year-old African-American transgender woman. Friends and community members are pushing for the murder to be …