Republican legislators and candidates responding to President Obama’s recent executive measures on gun control have openly and willfully distorted the president’s stated policies and ambitions.…

The female sex hormone estrogen has anti-viral effects against the influenza A virus, commonly known as the flu, a new study in American Journal of…

As 2015 drew to a close, many in the global energy industry were praying that the price of oil would bounce back from the abyss,…

On Tuesday evening I watched president Obama's state of the union address. It was brilliant. Obama rang all the bells, dotted all the i's, and…

Jan. 11, 2015 - For half a century, the accepted research on happiness has shown our lives on a U-shaped curve, punctuated by a low…

If your top political figures need to constantly state that your country is not a tax haven, then the chances are it probably is a…

Alice Padilla’s laugh cut through the air at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. Fresh off an hour-long exhibit tour, she and 16 other friends sat in…

Back in August I wrote a piece here in Salon about Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and how it was a mistake for liberals to laugh too much about…

I watched a documentary about North Korea which explained how the government there assigns a score to each citizen, based on how large a threat…

GMO promoters enthuse about how GM crops will be able to help the poor and hungry, far in the future, writes Claire Robinson. But they…

Once again, the fear machine is going into full force as the Presidential primary campaign heats up. If there’s one thing the politicians in general…

Those who have been reading my work for any length of time know I have been adamant we would someday face a “global margin call”.…