ORLD LEADERS INK PACT!" Sorry, some sportswriting broke out there for a moment. We continue. The deal was struck in a rare show of near-universal…

As wave after wave of record-breaking high temperatures grips huge swaths of America, media coverage of the December warmth has rarely been willing to discuss…

Here is Jesus H. Christ, walking around modern America, right now. Can you imagine him? Here is, in other words, a dark-skinned, bearded, unkempt Middle…

Remember when Sarah Palin said she [3] loved to visit “the real America”—as if there are parts of the country that are less authentically American than others? A…

Yves here. You cannot make this stuff up. This Real News Network segment features Bill Black discussing, based on his first-hand experience of having the…

David Talbot's latest book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government, examines the post-WWII U.S. intelligence sector and…

I use the term "epocalypse" to name the last days of the global economy as we know it -- a global economic collapse of biblical…

The FDA has approved a new flu vaccine—Fluad.  Should we say, “hooray,” or “oy veh”.  I will let you decide. Fluad is the first seasonal…

The last time the World Trade Organisation met was in December 2013. Back then neither the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) nor the…

As the media obsess over Donald Trump's latest ploy to make the media obsess over him, here are some issues getting less attention: 22 percent of…

New research shows a cereal familiar today AS BIRDSEED WAS CARRIED ACROSS EURASIA BY ANCIENT SHEPHERDS AND HERDERS LAYING THE FOUNDATION, IN COMBINATION WITH THE NEW…

Something strange is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Among all ethnicities or races, as well as counterparts of other wealthy countries, the mortality rate for this…