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Every year, thousands of American workers die on the job, and millions are injured due to lax worker safety laws and weak enforcement of those that do exist.

Public attention and Congressional review, writes Barry, should focus on the increasing militarization of border control, especially in the management of the border drone program.

What do the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform have in common?

The conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt is unprecedented. Never has a previous head of state been convicted of genocide or crimes against humanity in his own …

The following petition, signed by over a dozen experts on Latin America and the media, was sent today to Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of The New York Times: …

The original idea of America empowered murderous regimes like that of Rios Montt in Guatemala

The fact that force feedings are being discussed in the context of Guantanamo is dangerously misleading; it obscures the routine use of feeding tubes in American prisons.

A new American dream could rise from the mess left by globalization, off-shoring and austerity.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Republican National Committee Wants Even More Money in Politics, and More

Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the …