The law would allow employers to fire people under age 26 without cause within two years of being hired...But student and labor groups say it will aggravate the problem and allow employers to treat young workers like trash.

Bankruptcy filings shot up a record 30 percent in 2005...Remember: Most people who file for bankruptcy are forced to do so by massive health care bills.

This essay will concentrate on the current "war criminal in charge." With some background for the historically uneducated, I’ll then fast forward to the present and take you into the heart of the beast we better get to know well and quickly, before it eats us alive.

I saw McCain on Jay Leno a few months ago trying to act like a cool dude. He was truly pathetic. You would really have to be sick to vote for John McCain for president.

Bush is tenacious. He will not admit defeat, although one very prominent and leading conservative, William F. Buckley, Jr. has asked President Bush to do just this — admit defeat.

March 20 marked the third anniversary of the launch of the U.S.-British war against Iraq. It is increasingly clear that the preemptive war against Iraq without a U.N. Security Council resolution is a war of aggression that destroys the world order for peace based on the U.N. Charter.

This Sunday at 4pm, I am proud to be speaking at an event in San Francisco called a "Civil Rights Slam for Justice," sponsored by among others the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

I was driving along a car-filled stretch of Interstate 95, just outside Portland, Maine, on a cool, cloudless Friday, and around me, a seemingly endless river of cars and trucks crowded the dark asphalt road.

Transamerica is a traditional road movie about a transsexual traversing the US with his new-found son and encountering a series of soap opera-style scenarios that are supposed to transform their lives.

Is the Bush administration just covering its behind against the growing backlash about its workplace safety enforcement record?

Civic groups, such as the National Constitutional Assembly and the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, have backed Tsvangirai's call for peaceful street protests.

A deeper appreciation of the world and Cuba from the perspective of those who have experienced the suffering in the mountains of Pakistan

Fidel Castro’s physical demise and the long aspired “democratic transition” in Cuba continue to be an obsession in US circles of power and within counter-revolutionary factions on and off the island.

Following is the full text of the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005, released by the Information office of China's State Council

The ExxonMobil War Boycott campaign announces endorsements by Cindy Sheehan, Howard Zinn, and a host of internationally known activists and writers.

GOP President George W. Bush’s popularity has sunk to levels not seen since just before Watergate ousted GOPer Richard Nixon from the White House.

TONY Blair's rambling tirade against the rest of the world was an unashamed paean of praise to the US neocons' Project for a New American Century.

Republican incumbent Kathy Cox made a notable misstep in January 2004, when Cox decreed the word "evolution" would be deleted from all state curricula and replaced with the phrase "biological changes over time."

Set in London in about 20 years after endless war and economic collapse saw the downfall of the US empire, V for Vendetta is a captivating political sci-fi thriller.

Over this past week, tens of thousands of people throughout the U.S., and thousands more around the world, turned out to mark the 3rd anniversary of the war in Iraq.