In the heavily fracked Keystone State, the economic interests of frackers trump the health concerns of residents. That much is abundantly clear in the wake of an extraordinary story by StateImpact ...

Americans are more divided than ever by political ideology, as a recent Pew Research Center study makes clear. About a third of people on each side say of the other that its proponents "are so ...

Florida Rep. Alan Grayson is hosting a "crypto-party" on Capitol Hill for colleagues in Congress to learn how to use encryption technology next week, according to an invite sent from an aide in his

The Great Recession is a story of numbers: rising unemployment rates, the widening gap between rich and poor, contracting GDP. But a new study has added a figure that underscores the human cost of ...

To insurance companies, there's no doubt that climate change is here: They are beginning to file lawsuits against small towns and cities who they say haven't prepared for the floods and storms that

By Tara Culp-Ressler " The U.S. Has The Most Expensive And Least Effective Health Care In The Developed World" Share: CREDIT: Shutterstock For the fifth time in a row, the United States has been ...

Flooding from Hurricane Sandy. Image: Wikimedia At least 10 feet of sea level rise is now guaranteed worldwide; it's all but inevitable, a done deal. An ice sheet two miles thick has collapsed in ...

Following Seattle and other cities, the Providence City Council Thursday voted unanimously to place a $15 wage referendum on the ballot. The measure applies only to large hotels, and polling ...

On May 29th, 2014 Executive Director Patrice McDermott testified before the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Her testimony addressed the ...

Open source software development has shown that allowing ideas to evolve based on their merit, rather than on a sales pitch, creates pathways to new innovations. Could open source, peer-to-peer ...