The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence.
As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves a construction/operating license for two new reactors in Georgia, alarming reports from Japan indicate the Fukushima catastrophe is far from over. ...
A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.
If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property (IP) enforcement laws to the Internet. While it was only negotiated between a few countries, it has global consequences. First because it will create new rules for the Internet, and second, because its standards will be applied to other countries through the U.S.’s annual Special 301 process. Negotiated in secret, ACTA bypassed checks and balances of existing international IP norm-setting bodies, without any meaningful input from national parliaments, policymakers, or their citizens. Worse still, the agreement creates a new global institution, an "ACTA Committee" to oversee its implementation and interpretation that will be made up of unelected members with no legal obligation to be transparent in their proceedings. Both in substance and in process, ACTA embodies an outdated top-down, arbitrary approach to government that is out of step with modern notions of participatory democracy.
Green Party Trade Union Group: Coalition of Resistance Spring tour http://t.co/CPtSGoQz...
During Monday night's Republican debate in South Carolina, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich continued to promote his controversial strategy to fight both child poverty and the jobs crisis: New York City janitors who make "an absurd amount of...
Do you understand PIPA and its potential effects on the Internet? We've got the details and a list of legislators who support it.
Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.
The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima's radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study just published in the International Journal of Health Services.
“If higher wages lower costs, why don’t employers just go ahead and raise wages on their own? The key issue here is that in most industries, especially low-wage industries, employers have more than one way to turn a profit.
From school teachers' plight to exotic pets to black power, these are films you don't want to miss.
Peace making is a local affair, says activist Laymeh Gbowee, co-founder of the Women's Peace Network in Liberia in this interview with Laura Flanders recorded just weeks before Gbowee won the 2011 Nob...
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Glad you asked. It turns out that the alternative energy market is the new gold rush of the 21st century. That’s the good news.
Not even a week after Barack Obama declared that not too many civilians die in the CIA's drone strikes in Pakistan, a new report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds that "at least 50 civilians" have been killed in rescues attempts, 20 in strikes on funerals, with at least 282 total civilians killed since Obama took office.
Don't Let TPP Become the New ACTA: Contact Your Lawmakers and Demand Transparency!
The Occupy movement forcefully injected a long-taboo topic—America’s appalling “banana republic”-level economic disparities—into the mainstream political debate. That inequality has immense implications, from falling wages, to deteriorating healthcare coverage, the overgrown financial sector, and the decline of America's productive base. Such sweeping inequality, deeply rooted in our economic and political system of legal payoffs and policy paybacks, has been intensifed by unionbusting and globalization. But even many of America’s most liberal mainstream politicians and pundits have narrowed the debate over inequality, perhaps out of a desire to shield President Obama from any pressure coming from his left. The issue of tax inequities has soared in importance, exposing the privileged status enjoyed by CEOs and hedge fund and private equity executives like Mitt Romney. But other crucial dimensions of inequality painfully experienced by ordinary Americans have been crowded out.
The race to the trough: What did corporate tax cuts deliver?
The chairman of the MPAA says Google can comply with the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act just like they have China's bans on Western websites.
Once considered by some to be an all-
boys club, LEGO Group is trying to appeal to
girls with
LEGO Friends -- a line of the toys marketed
specifically
to the fairer sex.
The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence.
As glaciers disappear in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, one man is helping farmers irrigate their fields by storing water in an innovative way
On Thanksgiving, a grade-school gym teacher parked on the shoulder of Interstate 80/94 in northwest Indiana, got out of her Mercury SUV and walked in front of a moving semi truck.
President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law
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