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Jenny Martinez and Kathryn Sikkink offer conflicting histories of the ascendency of international courts.

Even if reactor containment vessels hold, pools of spent fuel rods could combust and release clouds of radioactive cesium into the air—a calamity that could happen at US nuclear plants as well.

Egyptians’ aspirations to democracy and social justice will depend on workers’ willingness to take to the streets.

Can the world sustain a country the size of China with an appetite for the good things in life on par with America's?

Camden, New Jersey, stands as a warning of what huge pockets of America could turn into.

A new oil rush endangers the Gulf of Mexico and the planet.

New evidence indicates that the PA's ambitious road-building program--heavily funded by the United States and Europe--is being used by Israel to facilitate settlement expansion.

 Ecology has become a very important issue on campuses this season, and this teach-in was the forerunner--a kind of model--for thousands of college and high school colloquia to be held on April 22, dubbed "Earth Day" by the sponsors. 

A single platoon lost in a military limbo is a measurement of the stress under which the US Army now operates.

Last month the Israeli Navy seized a boat attempting to deliver
humanitarian aid to blockaded Gaza and arrested its passengers,
and received little international criticism.