There was a time in Washington when a letter from Ralph Nader to the president or a Cabinet official might evoke not only a response…

AlterNet and other progressive news sites frequently [3] publish articles about the decline [4] of Christian hegemony in the United States. While this view is to some extent true, it doesn’t…

Kids go to school to learn stuff. Right? Not exactly, according to veteran education Marion Brady, who has long argued that public education needs a…

A Russian Su-27 jet intercepted a U.S. RC-135U reconnaissance plane that was closing in on the territory of the Russian Federation. Unable to identify the radar…

Late February the Finnish publication Iltalehti published a sensational news headline about conspiracy theories: Now it is proven: conspiracy theorists are fools living in a bubble The…

Cops: Who are they?

This week's Global Research News Hour focuses on the need to change economics as usual. Is it possible? Our guests include James Magnus-Johnston, the Canadian…

The discovery of a contagious cancer spreading among edible clams off the northeast US and Canadian coasts has stunned scientists and raised new questions about…

Changes to the Earth's oceans, caused by extreme volcanic activity, triggered the greatest extinction of all time, a study suggests. The event, which took place…

A UCLA social psychologist has found that we think of future selves as different people, which could explain why many of us don’t save enough…

A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office addresses the bombastic overuse of anti-psychotic medication for suppressing behavior problems in dementia patients. The report…

You’ve been there. You head to the dentist thinking you’ll have a clean bill of health and high praise for you oral hygiene, only to…