If baseball is sincere about seeing the game return to the cities and if they don't want home run derbies whiter than the Republican National Convention, they are going to need to do more than offer meager urban academy programs.

John McCain has long sought to identify himself with Theodore Roosevelt. In a New York Times story last week, he repeated that identification, portraying himself as a "conservative" Republican like TR.

To say that kids are growing up faster than ever these days may be more than just cliché. Recent studies have shown that children are reaching puberty at younger and younger ages, and researchers are starting to see links between this trend and other societal ills such as ubiquitous pollution and sedentary lifestyles.

Scientists have long understood that human actions are the primary cause of global warming. But one of the largest single organized human activity – growing livestock for food – contributes as much as any coal burning plant or petroleum consuming vehicle to global climate change.

According to The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith, a 42-inch plasma TV set can draw more power than a large refrigerator, even if the TV is only used a few hours a day.

The AFL-CIO today announced the formation of a national Union Veterans Council that will enlist millions of veterans to improve urgent veterans’ and pocketbook issues and expose the records of candidates for office at every level on these issues.

There's no waste in the inaugural speech Barack Obama would supposedly deliver in January 2009, should he stick to the text prepared by the experienced British journalist and historian Richard Gott published in The Guardian last July 9.

The McCain campaign has a new commercial contrasting the fabled hippie "Summer of Love" in 1967 and its message of "uncertainty, hope and change," with what it calls "another kind of love – love of country,” John McCain shot down, bayoneted and tortured.

In 2004, while campaigning for George W. Bush in New Hampshire, McCain said, “Without privatization, I don’t see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits.”

No doubt about it, autism rates have skyrocketed in the U.S. and beyond in recent years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the disease affects one in every 150 children born today in the U.S.

On June 30, 2008, Fulton County Superior Court denied Greenleaf Energy Associates, LLC, a permit to build a coal burning power plant in Early County, Georgia, on the Florida border.

For the first time this term, on June 12, 2008, the US Supreme Court split a decision on a case before it along political/ideological lines. It ruled that foreign detainees at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) have the right to appeal to US civilian courts. The decision came just as the first Gitmo trials are beginning.

Pesticides have greatly boosted agricultural yields over the last half century, so it is no wonder, given the commercial availability of many of these synthetic chemicals, that American homeowners apply 100 million pounds of the stuff each year to make their own gardens grow bigger and faster.

It’s Independence Day again. A time of family barbecues, fireworks and hawkish rhetoric with syrupy-sentimental overtones. It’s time to raise our flags a little higher, pray a little harder and join Sean Hannity in a mindless chorus of self-congratulation.

Describing the economic interests of workers in the industrialized countries and those of workers in developing countries as "inextricably tied," United Auto Workers (UAW President Ron Gettelfinger presented a keynote address to the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) in Sao Paulo, Brazil last month.

CompuCredit, an Atlanta-based credit firm that services usurious credit cards and loan products, which harvest fees and high interest charges off of low-income families with poor credit scores, is accused of deceiving and taking advantage of its customers.

Cogeneration—also known as combined heat and power, distributed generation, or recycled energy—is the simultaneous production of two or more forms of energy from a single fuel source.

The Cuban and the US flags fluttered together on June 19 by a monument dedicated to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were unjustly executed 55 years ago by fascist forces in the United States.

Several dozen people arrived at The Carter Center Wednesday night, June 11, 2008, to listen to award-winning energy expert and environmentalist S. David Freeman, whose new book sheds light on America’s deadly addiction to "three poisons": foreign oil, coal, and nuclear power.

As John McCain campaigns on a pledge of increasing greenhouse gas emissions by launching new offshore oil drilling and refusing to make caps on emissions by big polluters mandatory, new government data indicates that the effects of global climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, are intensifying.