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Obama Dresses Down the Military, but What's Changed? According to NBC News and journalist Jonathan Alter in his book “The Promise,” President Barack Obama “dressed down” senior generals at …

The online Urban Dictionary gives three definitions for this ancient jive phrase: first, similar to saying “It's all good,” or “everything is going according to plan;” second, similar to …

Tucson's Unified School District is 56 percent Latino, but you may not know it by the changes in the curriculum. According to bills recently passed in the Arizona …

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is far different than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. The complex marine environment has currents and eddies that could …

Bangkok, Thailand — Just one week ago, the political strife crippling Bangkok was poised to end. But Friday, the city’s main thoroughfares were lit by burning tires. Masked men …

Eighty-one tons of mercury is emitted into the atmosphere each year as a result of electric power generation. Every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic. …

Simon Critchley is chair of the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His recent books include “The Book of Dead Philosophers” (Vintage, 2009), "On Heidegger's …

Even as headlines and broadcast news are dominated by BP's fire-ravaged, sunken offshore rig and the ruptured well gushing a reported 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the …

Washington — President Barack Obama took aim Friday at BP and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, calling their congressional testimony this week "a ridiculous …

I'm increasingly intrigued by the ability of certain brands to outlast the loss of their underlying substance. Facts are stubborn things, John Adams said, but sometimes, it seems, not …