Health

Tom Engelhardt gives tribute to the late Jonathan Schell, along with an illuminating interview in which Schell speaks of the Vietnam War.

While scientists have been telling us about earth's climate in the deep past, and into the distant future, artists on the other hand, have been bearing witness, in the …

Fashions come and go. And this year, across the broad swath of Eurasia, fascism is in.

Three years after the Fukushima disaster, the Japanese government has reversed its position of abandoning nuclear power and is developing new nuclear reactors, despite opposition from a majority of …

How do we use the enthusiasm around raising the minimum wage to promote a more robust vision of economic democracy.

Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in GMO plants, even after nearly …

There have been five great extinctions of species on Earth, all of them due to natural causes. In a gripping book, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the ongoing sixth extinction of …

Art has added vitality and energy to advocacy; and it reaches people at deeper emotional levels and in their hearts conveying what cannot be said with mere facts.

Dahr Jamail says that though some journalists avoid linking weather patterns to climate change, global warming still exists.

What we are seeing in Spain is a dream for conservative forces (large employers and banking) that have been the dominant forces over the Spanish state.