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Guantanamo protest

As the hunger strike approaches its 100th day on May 17, 100 prisoners are refusing food.

Soybeans

A throwback is just that, even if it is shrouded in organic hemp cloth.

How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.

Digital surveillance

Search engine executives warn about invasive government surveillance, but the digital arms trade begins with their own technologies.

Myanmar police

Buddhism is marked by concern for the welfare of all “sentient” creatures. But when it is harnessed to ethnic intolerance and extreme nationalism, it can turn violent.

bookstore

Walking libraries... a God named “Word”.. what Sherlock Holmes never said... read it here!

Mary Thom

The feminist author and long-time editor of Ms. magazine died tragically in a biking accident.

chemical fire

How Americans unwittingly entered—and become exposed to biohazards in—the greatest uncontrolled experiment ever launched.

New York Times

From climate change to financial meltdown, the worst of our journalism is becoming the norm. 

Anwar al-Awlaki

How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011.

Blogs

Changes in language and poison pill amendments could throw gun control off the tracks. 

April 16, 2013

With 20,000 runners from 96 countries in tow, it's hard to avoid the global implications of this year's Boston Marathon.

April 16, 2013

Rehab is hard, painful, miserable work. But those runners, I suspect, will run again.

April 16, 2013

A school-closing hearing in Chicago becomes a test of whether corporate-driven school "reform" can be responsive and humane.

April 16, 2013

Amid speculation about the bombing, a great city and its people are responding to tragedy with a strength that is the stuff of poetry.

April 16, 2013

Today's bombing will change the Boston Marathon forever—that, in and of itself, is a tragedy.

April 15, 2013

This week, Newark walks out, Arizona kneecaps its students and UNC rape survivors create a national underground network. And more!

April 15, 2013

Twenty-seven-year-old Claudia Muñoz checked into a Michigan facility—to fight for the release of those being unfairly held.

April 15, 2013

A fair path to citizenship, an end to deportations, a better temporary worker program, immigration reform that works for women—three activists and a policy expert talk about what the reform bill must include.

April 15, 2013

Rather than making an argument against choice, the doctor's crimes illustrate the risks of forcing abortions underground.

April 15, 2013