Environment

“There's no place like home” is supposed to be a figure of speech or a memorable line in a corny song. Instead it's just a fact of life for …

Military personnel, particularly officers, surrender several Constitutional rights immediately upon becoming members of the armed forces.

Even the teleprompter must know that it is the beast in the belly of the news reports, more of them every day in print and en blog, about income …

Record-setting droughts and ferocious storms; the poisoning of our food, air and water; the dying off of species; the unearthing and spread of superbugs and diseases; ever-growing piles of …

The reality of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (ACD) continues to outstrip our ability to model worst-case scenarios, as it is happening so much faster than was ever anticipated. Sixty-three percent …

The voices of First Nations, often key to environmental activism through land right battles, should not be subsumed by other activist groups, says Sara Santiago.

If the NLRB fails to respond to the right-wing anti-union campaign in the Chattanooga VW plant elections, billionaires will be able to buy labor elections as well as political …

Dean Baker: As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on retirement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from the policies that allow them …

President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.

As research confirms water contamination by hydraulic fracturing, an alarming amount of hazardous chemicals - including arsenic, chloride, barium and radium - are found in Pennsylvania groundwater.