Environment

The New York Police Department reacted quickly against Occupy Wall Street activists who returned to Liberty Square (or Zuccotti Park) six months after the original occupation began. But the …

William Herrmann of Whiting Petroleum walks along a pipeline at the Bakken Shale formation in Belfield, North Dakota, September 3, 2011. Hydraulic fracturing techniques, despite causing a growing controversy, …

The site of a well for a hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” operation. The fracking industry's response to criticisms of its health impacts has been compared to that of the …

Wow, the AARP must be taking lessons from the Democratic Party, that you can afford sell out your putative base if you do the bidding of really big moneyed …

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Police officers prepare to detain protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement during a rally at Zuccotti Park in New York, March 17, 2012. Scores of Occupy Wall Street …

Many evangelicals wear their religion on T-shirts and around their necks and on car bumpers and eye-blacks. They hand out tracts on college campuses and stage revival meetings on …

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A man is arrested outside after the St. Charles Caucus was shut down at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, Missouri, on March 17, 2012. The event …

(Image: Melville House Publishers) As a kid, I didn't know the term working-class, but I certainly knew the antagonisms that came from falling below the middle and …