Environment

Attendees clap during the CNN Tea Party Republican Debate at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 12, 2011. Eight Republican presidential candidates squared off with host …

Tampa, Florida - The future of Social Security, a pivotal issue in retiree-rich Florida, seized the political spotlight at Monday's Republican presidential debate as Mitt Romney tried hard to …

Washington - Don't fall for it. There's no “new tone” coming from the Republican-controlled House. It's just a remix of the same old song. Anyone who watched …

Two web petitions showed up in progressive inboxes last week. One, organized by Daily Kos in support of striking Verizon workers, was blasted out by “alternative” cell service provider …

When my marriage ends I am in the middle of reading Norwegian Wood.  Traumatized by the news that Naoko, the enigmatic and troubled woman he loves, has committed suicide, Murakami’s …

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 …