Stratham, N.H.- The bales of hay were stacked strategically in the hope that they'd make it into the television screen. The sturdy white barn nearby provided an image…
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The line of cars waiting to cross from Mexico into the United States. (Photo: Quentin Xerxes Zamfir / Flickr) In the period since the North American…
An elderly man sells pastries to a gathering crowd outside the compound where Osama bin Laden was reportedly killed in Abottabad, Pakistan, May 4, 2011. (Photo: Warrick Page…
Peshawar – Housewife Shahida Jabeen was devastated when she heard the news that she could no longer take sewing and embroidery classes at the local training centre in…
(Photo: Markus Reuter / Flickr) While Congress bickers and the president dithers, roads are crumbling, bridges are failing, dams are cracking and water and sewer systems…
Last Friday afternoon, I watched an episode of Private Practice that had aired the week before and was not all that surprised when one of the story lines…
(Photo: moni / Flickr) When Sheela Gunn-Cushman decided to take part in a die-in at the California Republican Convention at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento in…
Is Snoop Dogg the new Joe Camel? Is Ronald McDonald? What about Facebook — has that website become synonymous with an infamous tobacco industry cartoon that preyed on…
(Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Vladimir Putin says we’re hooligans; Brazil accuses the United States of engaging in “currency wars”; and the Chinese…
As food prices, both in this country and abroad, continue their steady ascent, the amount we should pay for food remains a contested issue. In a February 21,…