Two Republican bills currently making their way through Congress should anger any American who cares about the nation's forests. Introduced this summer, both bills are…

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Prof. Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois Law School with a long career as an anti-war activist and…

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This article was originally assigned, accepted, and paid for in full by Vanity Fair — which never got around to publishing it, and graciously released…

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My guest Peter Melton and I discuss how we know what we know and still live life with peace, passion, and purpose and keep our…

California is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in the state’s history, prompting Governor Jerry Brown to declare a water “state of…

I’ve decided that, at least in the United States, the religiously devout really do have the interests of rationalist nonbelievers at heart, at least as…

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