Environment

Mainstream media outlets and consumers have been understandably quick to take note of the benefits chocolate and coffee offer. Yet most American consumers are ignorant to the mounting evidence …

The troubling case of a 15-year-old U.S. citizen’s wrongful deportation has raised alarm about what immigration agents have long known is a serious problem: increased enforcement has led to …

For General Electric Co., hawking subprime mortgages was a long way from making light bulbs and jet engines. That didn't stop the industrial giant from jumping into …

An Iranian news agency reports that a fourth Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated along with his driver.  Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a professor specializing in petroleum engineering at a technical …

(Photo: CrazySphinx) My father got a bill Saturday from Telecom USA for $68.65 for three collect calls - 3 minutes, 2 minutes and 2 minutes - on …

With a center being built in Tulsa devoted to the work of Woody Guthrie, Bill looks back at the singer-songwriter’s life and work, finding many points of irony and …

Juan Gonzalez: The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday testing the constitutionality of a Bush-era regulation that allows the Federal Communications Commission to levy stiff fines on broadcasters for the …

Dear Senator Libous: I am writing today, and sending a copy of this letter to both the Albany and Binghamton offices, because I have called and left messages …

“With hydrofracking, a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene, and radioactive elements like radium, all …

Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement in Zuccotti Park in New York, November 15, 2011. (Photo: Marcus Yam / The New York Times) Naomi Klein: One …