Environment

Conventional journalism is increasingly irrelevant in a time of crisis. We find abundant proof in a recent column from the New York Times’ so-called “Public Editor,” who is supposed …

Washington - Far out on the Pacific Ocean, the world's industrial fishing fleets pursue one of the last huge wild hunts — for the tuna eaten by millions of …

Occupy Wall Street, November 6th. (Photo: [clint]) The political movements of the left that I have participated in over many decades were almost always focused on or …

(Photo: isafmedia / Flickr) The reason the Occupy movement grips our hearts is that the Afghan strategy of the past 40 years implemented by Afghanistan's lords and …

Occupy Wall Street protesters march in New York's Financial District on September 26th, 2011. (Photo: _PaulS_ / flickr) I recently came across a pithy, anti-Occupy Wall Street …

The Occupy movement has done something amazing, getting Americans to start questioning our economic divides. It's created spaces for people to come together, voice their discontents and dreams, creatively …

The 12-member Super Committee is down to its final two weeks to produce a plan to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal budget. According to recent reports, …

As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Republican members of Congress have been waging a war to open 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon to uranium mining. Last week Secretary of …

After an Election Day that saw a number of wins for progressive causes nationwide, activists opposed to “corporate personhood” — the notion that corporations have equal rights to individuals …