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Environmentalists worry that collective amnesia, flawed energy policy and the hot pursuit of oil will fail to prevent another catastrophic spill.

Brazil is giving meaning to the notion that fighting discrimination is a priority, assuring that education is a universal human right.

James Kwak explains how understanding the tax policies of each Presidential candidate is not simple matter of rounding up.

Since the first Presidential debate left the American people more than wanting, here are some real issues that should be addressed by both candidates

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse of TomDispatch.com expose this startling and ominous account of drone warfare in

For the moment, all eyes are focused on tonight's vice presidential debate in Kentucky.

E.J. Dionne Jr.: If anyone can testify to the problem of giving really rich people a chance to tilt the political playing field, it's Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown.

The 2012 presidential race is shaping up as a new kind of political fight being fairly openly fought around the issue of class and inequality with racial overtones.

Striking steelworkers lament the lost golden era of industry and anxiously confront a future marked by perpetual decline.

It is not the Democrats or the Republicans who dominate this country, but the party of