According to new research by the Consumers Union, which took over 200 samples of both organic and conventionally grown rice and rice produ...

Obama, according to the fevered rhetoric of the far-right, wants to radically extend the reach of the government in an effort to extract v...

Now 71, Dylan sounds positively skeletal on Tempest , his voice stretched almost past the point of sounding like a voice at all. It suits ...

Fox ignored history and President Obama's own words to attack the president for not including the word God in a proclamation commemora...

Jonathan Kozol has dedicated his life to working with low-income children in inner cities. As one of the leading advocates for public educ...

The most disturbing similarity between the two is direct corporate sponsorship, and the more obscure soft corporate funding through their re...

In my mind, the poor are the ones being hijacked in all of this. If educated congressmen, presidential candidates, governors, and even loc...

There is a flaw in the vision the Republicans offered in Tampa. It is contained in its rampant hyper-individualism. Speaker after speaker ...

While cutting food stamps remains atop the Republican agenda, a new Gallup poll reminds us that hunger continues to run rampant in America...

“That plant kills people,” Mitt Romney said in 2003, pointing at the Salem Harbor power plant. He was right — one estimate suggests that...

When Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, Ryan said that America was an idea. He spoke of the idea that human rights der...

Paul Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of today’s Republican Party: Reward the rich, penalize the poor, let everyone else ...

The recent mass shootings bears out the need to get beyond simplistic attacks on popular culture. When social chaos grabs the headlines, it’...

The solar company failed, but the decision to invest in it was the right one. The Solyndra “scandal” is trotted out every few months as...

Anyone who’s lived in metropolitan Atlanta knows its infamously snarled highway traffic. But any Georgian also knows that it would be impo...

The semiautomatic handgun used in the deadly attack on a Wisconsin Sikh temple is the same type used in other recent U.S. mass shooti...

A statistical climate change analysis led by NASA's James Hansen, which will be presented in a report released Monday on the Proceedi...

It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of the recession. Wages are f...

Algebra is an onerous stumbling block for all kinds of students: disadvantaged and affluent, black and white. Why do we subject students to ...

Climate change—the biggest thing ever to happen on our planet—strikes me as a test not just of whether the big brain was a good adaptati...

Old Man Gloom was on hiatus for eight years, but, earlier in 2012, the band emerged to play a series of shows, where its previously hinted...

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department...

Members of Generation X are responding in a disturbing way to climate change — with a big, collective shrug of indifference.  Only 22 perc...

Recent events trace a threatening trajectory, sufficiently so that it may be worthwhile to look ahead a few generations to the millennium ...

Last week in Virginia, President Obama made a fairly basic point about succeeding in business: you benefit not just from your own initiat...

Mitt Romney and an array of surrogates are mocking President Obama for remarks he made defending public investments in infrastructure, ...

Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporti...

Late last year, President Obama made a pilgrimage of sorts to the sleepy town of Osawatomie, Kansas, to talk about the economy. He went t...

There are two Affordable Care Acts. There's the legislation passed by Congress in 2009, and then there's the mythical Obamacare – ...

The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act by a 5 to 4 vote. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, responding to the ruling in front...

The number of U.S. citizens who died in terrorist attacks increased by two between 2010 and 2011; overall, a comparable number of American...

stART on the Street is central Massachusetts largest, art, music and performance festival.    The past few years the spring stART festiv...

June 4 marked the 93rd anniversary of the congressional passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. On August 18, 1920 Tennessee be...

On May 29, The New York Times published an extraordinarily in-depth look at the intimate role President Obama has played in authorizing US d...

The central message of Noble Laureate Economist Paul Krugman's new book, End This Depression Now!  is simple: It doesn't have to ...

For many of us, Graceland — rightly or wrongly — planted seeds of the beauty and joyful strength of Africa in our imaginations for the fi...

If 2006’s Tenacious D In 'The Pick Of Destiny' hadn’t bombed at the box office, Jack Black and Kyle Gass would’ve had to invent ...

On clean energy, the material/financial aspects of the conflict are the easiest to understand. Wind, solar, and the rest threaten the financ...

Nearly a quarter of a century after DNA testing was used to prove that a defendant had been falsely convicted of a crime, the American pub...

“If you’re into metal music anywhere in the world, you know about the Palladium,” says Chris Besaw of Break-Thru Music, a joint business v...

Tea Party-backed candidates swept into Washington in 2010 on a wave of opposition to bank bailouts. Now that they’re in Washington, howev...

Two-thirds of the largest 200 U.S. corporations lobbied on at least one tax bill between 2007 and 2010, and here’s why: the majority of th...

Between 2000 and 2007, there were 32,299 UFO sightings in the United States, 352 deaths caused by lightning, but only nine cases of voter ...

The GOP isn’t unique in the art of foot-in-mouth disease, but 2012 is proving a banner year for the party with the pachyderm mascot to w...

The huge difference between the thinking of Republicans and Democrats disappears when it comes to gas prices. Both subscribe to the same d...

House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan's budget is a remarkable document — one that, for most of the past  half-century, would have b...