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Why do patriotic members of an elite combat unit refuse to serve in the occupied territories?

Widespread resistance to natural gas fracking is rising above New York's Marcellus Shale.

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.

State Department employee Peter Van Buren was sent to Iraq to help rebuild it. The result was an exercise in Murphy's Law.

The United States has alienated both allied regimes and their opposition movements.

When Congress, the president and the media run roughshod over popular will and citizen action, small-d democracy pays the price.

When Congress, the president and the media run roughshod over popular will and citizen action, small-d democracy pays the price.

Remembering a 1950s radical who developed his values, critical thinking and world view in a time when non-conforming was rare.

Sometimes the censor is art’s best friend.

The administration is promoting failed law enforcement programs as economic stimulus.