Environment

The economic crash led to the loss of 9 million jobs and the biggest drop in American home-ownership since the Great Depression. Long-term unemployment, poverty and hunger have increased …

Featuring: musician Daz-I-Kue, educator and former president of Oakland’s School Board, Greg Hodge and Oakland’s Assistant City Administrator Fred Blackwell. They explore the root of political actions from London …

Occupy Berlin, in front of the Reichstag, October 15, 2011. (Photo: Brainbitch) I was not going to write a Solutions column this week because I am on …

Miami - The White House will not add another detainee to the prison camps at Guantanamo, the Pentagon's top lawyer said Tuesday, acknowledging that congressional restrictions have brought captive …

Antonio, the Majomut cooperative supervisor, shows off the coffee plants. The cooperative purchases coffee from member-landowners, pays them fair trade prices, then ships then beans to overseas. (Photo: Kristian …

President Barack Obama is seen through a window backstage at the General Motors Lake Orion Assembly Plant in Orion Township, Michigan, October 14, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White …

Washington - To hard-core environmentalists, the Obama administration's upcoming decision on the fiercely debated Keystone XL oil sands pipeline is black and white. Say no to the Canada-to-Gulf Coast …

The fact that Alabama has HB 56, the nation’s harshest anti-immigrant law on the books, has become a point of pride of some Alabama Republicans. The bill’s sponsor, state …

Republicans are debating again tomorrow night. And once again, Americans will hear the standard regressive litany: government is bad, Medicare and Medicaid should be cut, “Obamacare” is killing the …

An Israeli soldier held for more than five years by the militant Palestinian group Hamas was traded on Tuesday for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in an …