‘Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour? When the storm is ended shall we find How softly but swiftly they have sidled…

Turns out, to the greatest consternation of some folks on Wall Street, millennials are smart. “They don’t trust the stock market,” Goldman Sachs determined in a survey.…

I'm sure most of my readers have heard at least a little of the hullaballoo surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment,…

How would readers like to have a “black box” for your brain or, possibly, a “brain chip”? Do you think that’s far-fetched? Well, think again,…

The link between popular pesticides and declining bee populations has been the subject of controversy and the target of research for some time; but the…

Sometimes I wonder if today’s crop of U.S. pundits and pols could ever rise to meet some truly urgent need of the American people, let…

Imagine if you had a product to sell that didn’t require advertising or marketing, but the majority of people thought they had to have it.…

This week, legislation to give President Obama fast-track trade agreement authority (TPA) will take its star turn in the GOP-controlled Senate. The cloture vote is…

Vowing to combat the "converging crises" of racism, militarism, climate change, and "extreme materialism," Dr. Jill Stein on Tuesday announced this week that she is…

Following elaborate legislative contortions and gimmicks designed to hand multinational corporations their top priority, today the U.S. Senate paved the way for Fast Track legislation…

Here’s the good news: President Barack Obama has committed to reducing the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 17 percent by 2020. The bad…

In the 14 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, nearly twice as many Americans have been killed by white supremacists, right-wing extremists, and other…