In the wake of the September 11 attacks, George W. Bush deliberately discarded domestic and international laws, creating an experimental facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. There prisoners would be …
A US soldier on night patrol in Khadamiya, Iraq, on April 21, 2007. Following 9/11, Chris Hedges says that, "we became what we abhorred." Hedges continues: "The deaths were …
Washington - Our political system is not accustomed to the kind of battle that is going on now. President Obama has been slow to adjust to it. The voters …
September 11, 2001 was my friend Diana’s 30th birthday. I planned on meeting her at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station after work. Instead I walked across the …
Students use an interactive whiteboard during a class in the Kyrene School District in Tempe, Arizona. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) Today's students see education as a …
One surprising development this summer is the international vogue for shutting down nuclear plants. Germany led the way in the spring — startling even its own industry leaders — …
In Israel, a social movement aimed at income inequality and housing prices has sprung up from a youth Facebook protest. Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a trip, hoping to nip the …
Washington - With the nation verging on renewed recession, President Barack Obama urged a divided Congress Thursday night to back his new $447 billion jobs package, which he promised …
The confrontation between West Coast longshore workers and an anti-union exporter exploded as pickets massed on railroad tracks by the hundreds yesterday to block grain shipments. Police …
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, like Jeanette Rankin before her, bravely stood alone in Congress against a vote for war, the vote in 2001 for the so-called Authorization to Use Military …