Health

Recently released documents show that since Fukushima, our nuclear regulators have been playing down the risk of a similar incident happening in the US, and more.

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 …

Chris Hedges: Israel's heavy-handed reaction to campus organizations is symptomatic of its increasing isolation and concern about waning American support.

Once hailed as the “Great Equalizer,” public higher education today has arguably become a driver of inequality.

Pesticides are part of life in the California's Salinas Valley, “America's Salad Bowl.” But a growing body of research suggests their use is linked to various health problems.

Numerous indigenous activists in Honduras have been killed with impunity by gunmen evidently in the pay of large landowners, and in a number of cases there has been evidence …

Inu00a0"Windfall," McKenzie Funk writes about those who would make money off of climate change, acknowledging the droll ironies of a society that can profit from its own self-destruction.

Chileans have, to put it in terms Americans understand, rejected Reaganomics. And it's time for us here in the US to do the same.

The FEC is putting hundreds of obscure political committees on notice for disclosure failures.

In the US we have our own ongoing civil war between govenment and rebels - supported by rich warlords - who are armed but, so far, have only targeted …