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Security Forum participants expressed total confidence in American empire, but could not contain their panic at the mention of Snowden.

A strong, state-based regulatory system appears key to avoiding the crackdown.

Doctors have bullied me about my weight for years, but obesity has given me the armor I needed to survive.

Religion is awful in a lot of ways, yes. But that doesn't mean you have to be awful too.

If we do not seize this moment in history to reform our surveillance laws, we will all live to regret it.

An interview with Julie Burkhart, who worked side by side with Dr. Tiller before his murder and is carrying on his legacy despite threats to her own life.

14 police officers with helmets and facemasks and assault rifles stormed in, family says.

Last night on the Daily Show, Oliver brilliantly connected the board game's change-up to banks' apparent infallibility -- Goldman Sachs price-rigging included.

The U.S. military has failed to win a single one of its numerous wars in our time. But hey, who has to win a specific war when it’s“wartime” all the time?

'Hooking up' has been spun as sexual liberation for career-focused young women. It doesn't square with my campus life.

Floridian facts are stranger than fiction. Why?

Can Grover Norquist and his congressional cronies just go away now?

Bold economic thinkers warn that it's time to tame the financialization monster.

Our nation was formed because our founding fathers wanted to escape the clutches of British royalty and nobility.

The ongoing public outcry over Zimmerman's acquittal may actually spark some change.

Meet the FratPAC, a super PAC devoted to protecting Greek life's right to haze.

The President has put out a contract on the Fourth Amendment.

From his first rehab in his early teens to the intervention staged by Glee co-creater Ryan Murphy in March, the star was failed in every possible way by an abstinence-only recovery culture.

A paragraph-by-paragraph rebuttal to NYPD Commissioner and would-be Homeland Security Chief Ray Kelly.

An ex told Sara Wong that she was "weird" for watching porn, and that it's only for guys. But she and plenty of other women beg to differ.

"America is experiencing a collective deja-ewwwww."

The North Carolina legislature just released a new voter suppression bill that would enact not just voter ID, but a host of other new initiatives designed to make it more difficult to vote.

Thanks to the record-breaking inaction and gridlock in Washington, the entire country is following in the path of Detroit.

Lead prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda lost focus from the moment he opened his mouth.

And it will stay that way until average Americans take home a fairer share.

Stephen Schwarzman, cofounder of the Blackstone Group, has “innovated” novel ways in which the rich can give back to themselves.

Is this America's scariest police chief?

The US still jails thousands of African Americans on sentences it admits were unfair.

From his bank-centric policies to terrible leadership and sexism, Summers has nothing good to offer the country.

"It's beautiful detail, softness and weight can really move hearts and change minds," pro-life website says of its creepy doll.

A severe drought in the Southwest is devastating crops and farm communities—and sending a warning about climate change.

Mass incarceration: the answer to all our problems.

The school is under federal investigation for failing to seriously address rape and sexual assault, and the allegations are devastating.

"The march has gone from being seen by many about primarily about the past, to being urgently about the present."

Americans have grown more supportive of same -sex marriages, gun control, immigration reform and even taxes on the wealthiest individuals. But the war rages on over abortion.

A major study on in-utero cocaine exposure reveals that poverty — not drugs — is the real danger children face.

The principles they proclaim demand a new Glass-Steagall, and they could give the president a fight.

A new study shows that none of the factories under review provided their workers with adequate safety equipment.

In the wake of George Zimmerman's acquittal, some are putting the blame on violence in Black communities.

The anti-GMO movement in the U.S. has achieved some preliminary victories in GMO food labeling but that's not all that needs to be done.

The successful move by Chevron is about harassing activists, a lawyer said.

A former professional skier who sought help for alcoholism became locked in a cultish life that destroyed her self-esteem and independence in the name of Jesus.

New York City cop Sean Christian is under internal investigation after being accused of sending sexually explicit photos taken from a woman to himself.

My dad came to my defense online, but for the first time I am outing myself publicly. I'm 14. Please stop calling me a whore.

Dr. Cornel West response to Obama's address.

Conservative policies are quite literally killing the American Dream.

Equal opportunity and upward mobility is a long-lost American Dream.

From celebrity culture to phony public intellectuals to shallow politicians -- there's an assault on rational thinking in this country.

Paul's aide Jack Hunter says he’s leaving to protect his boss and clear his own name -- but there's plenty of reason not to buy it.

I was only a foot soldier, and am now a low level clerk. However, I have always believed that if every foot soldier threw down his rifle war would end. I hereby throw mine down.

The financial speculation industry has devastated middle-class wealth -- and there's a simple way to curb its power.

Monteith's death, like many others, was due to a toxic mixture -- heroin and alcohol.

It's time to free yourself from negative, health-eroding stress responses by rewiring, rethinking, and retooling how you react.

As the world sits on the edge of its seat about events in Egypt, the 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza are paying the price.

Single-serving packs prevent us from discarding food after opening a bottle or bag that contains more than we need.

Inside the hypergluttonous megabank, whose criminal conspiracies we’ll all be paying for until the end of time.

There’s a vast difference between working in an unionized district and working in an unorganized charter or public school.

A new study demonstrates that cities in the Southeast lag behind those in the Northeast when it comes to income mobility.

The pressure to stay quiet benefits universities looking to avoid scandalous headlines for the sake of reputation, application rates, and alumni donations.

The food giant has been hit by a strike over a store with no A/C and a drop in stock prices. Now they have to contend with falling stocks.

When conservative celebs peddle awful schwag, their fans pay big bucks. But here's why it's bad for the rest of us.

From Hitchens to Dawkins, the most prominent faithless are white men. The movement needs to take a look at itself — and church history

The report describes 147 civilian deaths, much higher than the U.S. administration has admitted to.

Using drones for surveillance in the US won't make overzealous police behaviour or lack of accountability disappear.

"Living in the Shadow of the Cross" explains how to understand and resist the power and privilege of Christian hegemony.

The discovery could be a major tipping point in the debate over the death penalty.

Marty Kaplan unravels distractions that prevent national outcry over unemployment, hunger, crumbling infrastructure and out of whack systems.

Defendants in Florida who employ the “Stand Your Ground” defense are more successful when white and when victim is black.

This summer, alumni and current teachers are coordinating to challenge TFA's "centrality in the corporate-backed, market-driven, testing-oriented movement in urban education."

The new law allows workers to pay into the program through a payroll deduction and then take up to four weeks of paid leave.

Marches across the country demands civil rights charges against Zimmerman.

A new bill would ban abortion from the moment something resembling a fetal heartbeat could be detected, usually at six weeks.

There’s no shortage of bad prosecutors in America, but these four go above and beyond.

Marches across the country demands civil rights charges against Zimmerman.

Workers in NYC and Chicago protest unsafe conditions in latest fast food walkout.

It's been a banner week for red-state racists and sexists.

Medical cannabis benefits human patients in pain, so why not give it to animals?

"Stand Your Ground" is just one of numerous backward laws that have been passed, largely under Tea Party–favorite Gov. Rick Scott.

Apalling behavior has been on display for some time.

The surveys of wealth-management groups show that the super-rich are gobbling up an ever greater share of the world’s bounty.

I learned how the power of the executive branch has corrupted mass media.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's flight to Hong Kong damaged the already shaky ties between the two powers.

Why are gov't regulators and prosecutors feeling so threatened by this trend?

Nobody ever seriously suggested, in the trial or in the media, that Trayvon Martin had a right to stand *his* ground.

I'm sick of loving a country that can't love me black.

A new survey shows how brazenly immoral Wall Street is.

Restricting access to abortion in Texas will probably increase illegal medicinal abortions, which few people know how to administer.

The Motor City's problems -- deindustrialization, robotification, long-term unemployment, racial division -- are America's problems.

Unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurs near homes of some of fractivism's most effective mobilizers.

A new documentary is a welcome antidote to the bleak and misleading message of "Waiting for Superman" and "Won't Back Down."

Appraisers, prosecutors, and industry tried to tell the Fed about a massive fraud crisis, but no one was listening.

"The Act of Killing" shows how Indonesia, to this day, celebrates the killers as heroes.

When I hit crisis point as a sober sex addict, I had to detox from all the men in my life and work on my sex inventory. It was hard, but it was worth it.

This week saw thousands protesting the Zimmerman ruling, continued bravery in California's prisons, and much more.