Environment

With the thousands of lives lost in Iraq, more US soldiers are dying of suicide then dying in battle. In 2010, 468 US troops committed suicide and an average …

Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! …

During a quick pro-forma session of the House this morning, Republicans rebuffed a Democratic attempt to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed payroll tax holiday extension, which Republicans …

Tens of thousands of residents in China’s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets yesterday, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near …

Grover Norquist is fast becoming the man everyone loves to hate – except those who fear him. Norquist, the leader of Americans for Tax Reform, …

(Photo: Zach D. Roberts) “So this bishop, three priests and a comedian are locked up together in this paddy wagon and ... ” "Zach! This …

Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word …

In November's elections, the national media gave extensive coverage to a proposed “personhood amendment” to Mississippi's state constitution. This extremist, anti-choice ballot initiative declared that a person's life begins …

Demonstrators protest the government of Vladimir Putin and results of the recent parliamentary elections, in Moscow, December 10, 2011. (Photo: James Hill/The New York Times) On the …

(Image: janie-jones / Casually Pepper Spraying Cop Tumblr) “My name only comes up when some a-hole wants to end an argument..., ” Adolf Hitler yells to his …