Essentially there are no creditable holes in the story line.  We even have witnesses reporting the right things at the right times.  Hitler and Eva…

When I was a lowly  graduate student—doing my PhD  thesis on the brains of boas and pythons—I had the great fortune of  having  dinner with…

Lawrence Wittner points out [1] that the United States will soon be the only nation on earth that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child [2].…

Deutsche Bank has produced a 175 page report that will have the Koch bros and their bought and paid for minions as well as every…

There are some famous film clips of the US Congress that stand the test of time. One is of attorney Joseph Welch as s subpoenaed…

Americans like the Clean Water Act (CWA), which was passed in 1972 to clean up the country’s waterways polluted by decades of industrialization and weak regulation, because they…

The description of the death of Robert-Francois Damiens, the man who attempted to kill Louis XV, is not for the faint-hearted. On March 2, 1757,…

The U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday that the January goods and services trade deficit was $41.8 billion in January, down $3.8 billion from $45.6 billion in December…

"I give you a message from my heart," she says, "let's move forward and work together for the benefit of everyone. And especially for those…

Too much and for too long, we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National…

Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some barbecue,…

Marriage is in retreat worldwide. In countries across the globe, increasing numbers of women and men are not simply postponing marriage, but forgoing it altogether.  Among…