Environment

Even amid increased scrutiny, former Sen. Rick Santorum unapologetically wears his faith-fueled social conservatism on the heart of his trademark sweater vest. But the same steely resolve …

Washington - They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn't, he's a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he's a Nazi, …

Pacific Steel workers march through Berkeley. (Photo: David Bacon) Berkeley, California - Two hundred immigrant workers, their wives, husbands, children and hundreds of supporters marched through downtown …

(Image: Verso) What's scary about Thomas Friedman is not his journalism, with its underinflated insights and twisted metaphors. Annoying as his second-rate thinking and third-rate writing may …

With the United States now well into the second decade of what the Pentagon has styled an “era of persistent conflict,” the war formerly known as the global war …

The American Electric Power coal plant in New Haven, W.Va., in September 2009. As Congress debates legislation to slow global warming by limiting emissions, engineers are tinkering with ways …

Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and the ever-frustrating all-too-abstract dialogues about the meanings of nonviolence, violence, strategy, tactics, …

The Florida State Senate has defeated a measure to privatize at least 27 prisons, which would have created the largest corporate-run prison system in the country. Despite the vote, …

Washington, DC - With members of both parties expressing distaste at some of the particulars, Congress on Friday voted to extend payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits and …