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Jerry DeWitt talks about his new book "Hope After Faith," and how he realized that religion of any kind simply doesn't add up.

From Texas to North Dakota, lawmakers are threatening the lives of women across the United States.

BART management and unions agree to extend current contract for 30 more days of negotiation.

Top officials are misleading or outright lying to the public and Congress about US spying. Yet pundits continue to vilify Edward Snowden?

The nineteen-year-old facing a third-degree felony for a Facebook joke is now suffering from the trauma of incarceration.

Missouri last executed a prisoner in the gas chamber in 1965 -- but it may soon reinstate the fatal practice.

Using absurd rhetorical tricks, the defense continues its effort to criminalize Trayvon Martin.

The pharmaceutical industry attempts to medicalize female sexuality.

Labor groups keep websites of union made beer for the discerning consumer, but a Canadian boycott of LaBatt products highlights a disturbing reality about the corporations behind our suds.

The Government has decreed that the lawyer Lynne Stewart die in prison.

The situation in Egypt remains fraught. But there's hope.

This week we learned what “extreme” in climate changed extreme weather means for human loss -- so what are we doing about it?

The actor's turn as a Comanche character is another chapter in an ugly racial history, experts say.

From Hitler references to calling reproductive rights activists "terrorists," Texas Republicans had at it.

As an indigenous activist, Peltier has been deemed a political prisoner by Amnesty International and numerous other human rights organizations.

The real patriots aren't flag-waving hypocrites, but those who risk their livelihoods and lives fighting injustice.

Mohammed Badie arrested in coastal city near Libyan border, officials say.

Drugs are not that dangerous. If we want to fight addiction, there are better ways than demonizing controlled substances.

Why poor white Southerners keep voting for policies that screw them and how this hurts the rest of the nation.

Arguing with ignorant relatives about inequality: Dirty work, but someone's gotta do it.

Labor groups keep websites of union made beer for the discerning consumer, but a Canadian boycott of LaBatt products highlights a disturbing reality about the corporations behind our suds.

Rallies are planned in more than 100 cities coast to coast.

The military has taken over, installed an interim president, and placed Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood leaders under arrest.

Many public schools in America do all they can to avoid teaching evolution.

While their tactics have differed, the goal was the same: to silence and criminalize those who expose government wrongdoing.

The officers arrived at midnight with a warrant for his arrest, but wouldn't answer any questions.

Can watching porn actually build confidence and give you some fresh new ideas?

Like countless first responders before them, they put themselves in harm's way because they wanted to serve.

Because offering affordable education is "rewarding illegal activity."

Christopher Ryan, coauthor of "Sex at Dawn," discusses the essence of human sexuality.

The military has taken over, installed an interim president, and placed Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood leaders under arrest.

Growing up post-9/11 with the Patriot Act, Dubya and imminent apocalypse, we are a generation somewhat jaded.

Officials refused to comment on a June 9 drone strike in Yemen that allegedly killed a 10-year-old boy.

Edward Snowden has to some degree fragmented and dispersed the concentrated power of capital and the state.

The Sunday Assembly, a group for unbelievers to connect with like-minded individuals, is expanding from the UK to US

Every piece of snail mail is logged for law enforcement agencies.

Within a decade of the end of America’s War on Drugs, hemp is going to be an even bigger industry than psychoactive cannabis—and it's healthy.

A crime scene in Hawthorne, California ended with a dead dog.

The Big Ten college athletic association known makes a shameful decision.

For too long Portland's budget has benefited big business and the wealthy at the expense of the vast majority.

Pattern follows sexual abuse tactics where power difference is great.

Here's why drug-testing women at birth is not the best idea.

People have rallied and held vigils in cities and towns, flooded the White House and Southern Command with phone calls and, by the hundreds, fasted in solidarity.

A new generation of community organizers is thinking differently about their opposition.

Higher education used to be free for millions of Americans. A transaction tax on the financial houses would make it free again.

A crime scene in Hawthorne, California ended with a dead dog.

Prisoners in an NJ jail, like prisoners across the country, have built a subterranean system of communication to defy the conditions of incarceration and keep themselves connected.

Prof. John Marselus of Liberty University focuses on drones "to prepare Champions for Christ in all areas of aviation."

News and social media are awash in misunderstanding and disinfo about the strike. Here are the facts that matter.

This artery clogger has been singled out by scientists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

US president pledged to avoid 'wheeling and dealing' while bullying countries that might grant asylum, says whistleblower.

Occupy-inspired protester Jeff Olson faced 13 years in jail for drawing chalk slogans outside Bank of America branches in California.

Should the government of Bangladesh or the companies that sell products manufactured in the country be held responsible for working conditions?

The U.S. model encourages "more expensive care, rather than care that is good for the mother,” says one expert.

Whether it’s pesticides in grain, hormones in dairy or fracking chemicals seeping into water supplies, we are vulnerable to serious health risks.

Dexter's final season has arrived, but its darkest chapter should never be forgotten.

As cartels battle drug warriors, environmentalists struggle to preserve nature in dangerous territory.

As many as 17 million Egyptians protested President Mohamed Morsi Sunday--the country's largest demonstration since the 2011 revolution that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Because offering affordable education is "rewarding illegal activity."

The stunning numbers on the sorry state of corporate taxation in modern America

Prof. John Marselus of Liberty University focuses on drones "to prepare Champions for Christ in all areas of aviation."

Doctors say 5-Hour-Energy, Monster, Red Bull should not be marketed to kids.

We crush them with debt to go to college -- and today, rates are actually set to double. Are we out of our minds?

The media’s most unabashed misogynists are actually tame compared to their ideological ancestors, which include the biggest names in Christian history.

Also to blame were abortion, a same-sex kiss, and exposed breasts.

A Belgian diplomat's family was kicked out of the Metropolis Country Club last month for breastfeeding.

Why, our pundits wonder, should we be disturbed by our state's desire to know everything that everyone does?

The deaths of two kids in New Orleans and Kentucky add to an already grim tally of child deaths by firearm.

Ohio becomes the latest state targeted by the Republican Party's extreme anti-abortion faction.

Justin Carter has spent four months behind bars for making what his mother described as a “very, very stupid comment.”

You are one notarized slip of paper away from joining the heterosexual world in horrible matrimony.

If ever there was a movement tailored to recruit and promote social deviants, it was the Minutemen.

Probably not the best way to spice things up in the bedroom.

Increased public knowledge and understanding will get in the way of the GOP agenda.

The U.S. is near the bottom of the developed world in median wealth, probably the best gauge for the economic strength of the middle class.

A whistleblower shares the experience of taking state secrets to the public.

Snowden didn’t 'betray' his country, but his courageous act follows Gandhi's model of inciting people to rebel against an unjust state.

No sooner had the court pronounced racism dead than its skeleton emerged from cupboards galore and started doing the can-can on primetime.

The biosphere of which humans are a part cannot afford half measures or rely on dubious “friends” in high places.

Like it or not, we’re being transformed as citizens, neighbors and human beings.

We need a rekindled labor movement that will challenge our fixed ideas about what is work and who should do it.

Keeping the cameras rolling during trying times resulted in an insightful examination of the world-famous event.

Some advocates argue that as long as we are up against such powerful countervailing forces, why not use cartoon characters to get kids to eat their veggies?

Many low-income Americans work extremely hard but need food stamps and other support to make up for low wages.

From the Texas filibuster to Pennsylvania's low-wager-worker sleep-in, citizens are rising up. What's happening in your state?

Here's a modest proposal: let the banks auction their art to cover damages from blighted, foreclosed properties.

Worst of all, Obama is being aided by a cadre of high-profile Benedict Arnolds within the media itself.

The US Conference of Mayors unanimously passed a resolution telling the federal government to respect state and other local pot laws.

As a black woman, I'm disappointed by what Deen said. But maybe this is what an "honest dialogue" about race really looks like.

The New York Times' Ross Douthat claims that curbing gun violence is a silly "pet" cause of liberal elites.

Who is planting anti-Snowden attacks with Buzzfeed, and why is the website playing along?

Joe Muto gives a behind-the-scenes account of life at the cable news station.

An excerpt from her new book "In The Body of the World: A Memoir."

Butane hash oil, a potent marijuana concentrate, is gaining popularity. So why does it split the pro-pot community?

UC Regents recently approved a new corporate entity that will likely give a group of well-connected businesspeople control over how academic research is used.

The Southwest may experience the hottest weather in recorded history. Still don't believe in global warming?

The militarization of the border has become not simply a means to an end, but the end itself.

With pickup artist misogyny in the news once again, here's some advice on attracting women -- without the sexism.

The paradox of power is that the real power is with us, if we have the courage to use it.

What happened in Albany last week is more than just another case of jaw-dropping political dysfunction—it has major implications for national anti-corruption efforts.