illary Clinton has received more money from arms and military service companies than any other candidate during the 2016 presidential campaign, data from Open Secrets…

A preliminary analysis has concluded that over 75 percent of high school students who use heroin previously used prescription painkillers. The study’s authors implicated not only pharmaceutical…

This article was first published in August 2015: In a bitter irony, the media coverup of  the CIA’s covert support to Al Qaeda and the…

Thanks to industrial food producers who are "gaming the system," eggs labeled as "organic" may not be very different from the factory-farmed versions consumers are…

The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that revolt is playing out, you…

Multi-million-dollar advertising money has long been suspected as an unspoken filter for Western news media coverage. If the news conflicts with advertising interests then it…

This November, a wave of student activism drew attention to the problem of racism at colleges and universities in the United States. Sparked by protests…

A new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that a whopping 71% of Americans surveyed believe the many shootings and other acts of mass violence in…

ORLD LEADERS INK PACT!" Sorry, some sportswriting broke out there for a moment. We continue. The deal was struck in a rare show of near-universal…

As wave after wave of record-breaking high temperatures grips huge swaths of America, media coverage of the December warmth has rarely been willing to discuss…

Here is Jesus H. Christ, walking around modern America, right now. Can you imagine him? Here is, in other words, a dark-skinned, bearded, unkempt Middle…

Ask even the youngest schoolchild how many senses we have and she’ll tell you five: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. Neuroscientist Don Katz thinks…