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Big Food won’t be absolved by tossing a fraction of its fortunes toward urban plots.

Maternal mortality is a domestic human rights crisis that kills hundreds of American women every year.

One of the deficit’s biggest causes–George W. Bush’s tax cuts–deserves more attention.

Newspapers, magazines, TV, and even radio are all battling the wolf at the door.

Low taxes on the income made from investments gives the richest Americans an unfair advantage.

Mother Nature’s weeds are smarter than the Frankensteins in Monsanto’s labs.

It’s just you and me, with two paddles and no credibility.

Congress hasn’t lost its taste for military pork despite all that chatter about cutting the deficit.

Michael Pollan’s new essay highlights the diverse schools of food activism takes as well as unifying themes.

Yet another partisan fight in Congress over whether the long-term unemployed should continue to collect benefits is looming.

Many of America’s prominent commentators ran on fumes when they opined about oil.

Activists and lawmakers are adopting new tactics to rein in spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Grandma Democrat, why is your lip service so big?

How can a civilized nation afford to hand the heirs of the super-rich billions of dollars tax-free and not afford to keep teachers in classrooms?

For communities that were already in economic freefall before this recession, it’s a catastrophe.

It’s time to end the massive subsidies currently enriching the fossil-fuel industries and making their disasters possible.

An endless deluge of foodborne illness outbreaks demands the reevaluation of our food system.

I’m against Kagan because she went to Harvard.

With BP’s disastrous oil slick filling the Gulf and sliming our shores, the corporation has already bought a third of the world’s supply of dispersants and is spraying them onto the slick.

Without a union or government bulwark to protect them, even the highest-level employees can be treated like dirt.