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As I write, a plume of crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion is moving toward Cuba, our purported enemy - but an enemy surrounded by the healthiest coral …

Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at New York City's Yeshiva University, starts “The Lost Soul of Higher Education” with a blunt assessment: "In reacting to the economic insecurities of …

Lahore, Pakistan - Gunmen stormed two separate mosques in the eastern city of Lahore during Friday prayers, killing at least 80 worshippers of the minority Ahmadi sect. The Pakistan …

On Thursday, 18 senators voted for Senator Feingold's amendment to the war supplemental requiring the president to establish a timetable for the redeployment of US military forces from Afghanistan. …

The Senate has approved continued funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan amounting to $60 billion, reported Democracy Now!. This will include full funding for the 33,000 additional …

“An upside-down faucet, just open and running out.” That’s how an oil-spill expert at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute describes the massive release of crude oil into the Gulf …

Washington - In June of 1969, the stretch of the Cuyahoga River that runs through Cleveland was so polluted that it caught fire. Time magazine described the Cuyahoga this …

It was 40 years ago this month that Walter Reuther died in a plane crash. Forty years. Yet, the auto workers leader remains an important inspirational figure - a …

First, it was legally-sanctioned racial profiling, with a touch of totalitarian “Show me your papers” thrown in for good measure (SB 1070). Next, we were delivered a new law …

The ghosts that haunt Sen. John McCain are about 600 in number and right now, they are mustering for a final onslaught. McCain, one of America's foremost Republicans and …