I've commented before in these posts that writing is always partly a social activity. What Mortimer Adler used to call the Great Conversation, the dance…

The devastating drought in California, home to much of the country’s fruit and vegetable production, is spurring discussions about the future of food production in…

In what has been three decades of ill-advised wars in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen may be the most ill-advised of them…

Large amounts of methane - whether as free gas or as solid gas hydrates - can be found in the sea floor along the ocean…

* The rocker takes on GMO-producing chemical company Monsanto on latest LP and Rebel Content tour Neil Young and Promise of the Real, a band…

President Obama and his Senate GOP critics are locked in a long-simmering feud, but there's one topic that has them clasping hands and singing kumbaya:…

The annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank held in Washington over the weekend comprised the treasurers and central bankers, together…

According to author Kevin Kruse, the idea that America is a “Christian nation” was invented only recently, forged by an alliance between industrialists and conservative…

Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has been a home for writers instigating, reporting on and arguing about struggles for social and economic justice. We have…

The 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s murder is one more reminder from the past of a distinctive feature of the American system. This is that…

The world capitalist system is arguably experiencing the worst crisis in its 500 year history. World capitalism has experienced a profound restructuring through globalisation over…

Ever since the measles outbreak in Disneyland, there has been a determined effort by legislators in California, to repeal the state’s current vaccine exemptions. If they…