Ann Coulter will speak at the University of Wyoming in just over 24 hours. As we've previously mentioned, a group of UW students have come up with what is, in this editor's opinion, a great strategy for fundraising for GLBT groups: For every minute Coulter spews her bitter, shallow rhetoric, ...

On Monday, the North Dakota Senate approved a bill that requires schools to promote abstinence-based sex education: “An amendment introduced by Sen. Larry Luick, R-Fairmont, rewrote the bill, requiring schools to ‘explain why abstinence from sexual activity until marriage provides safety from sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and other associated health issues.’ ...

It's very clear that the Republicans and Tea Party folks criticize Obama for ridiculous reasons that have very little substance, but we on the left, particularly those of us who describe ourselves as "progressive," criticize him too, but for entirely different reasons.  There are a number of strong supporters of ...

We probably didn't need another indicator of the vast theological, ideological, and ethical divide between the religious left and the religious right. We already know that one side seeks positive and progressive engagement with the world, mediated through their theology of course, but nevertheless firmly committed to material improvements. The ...

In the long run,renewable energy is more economically and environmentally viable than either carbon or nuclear energy. In the short run, we're closer than we might suspect in some ways, even if formidable structural barriers exist elsewhere. In the This description of the Latin American context could is typical of ...

This is the fourth and final instalment of an investigative report uncovering and analyzing a global plan to capture and utilize the ocean's store of methane hydrates. The investigation reflects upon the decades of planning coordinated by the world's most powerful institutions, including the global banking and investment corporations, global ...

"There have been two principal aspects to the growth of democracy in this century (20th): the extension of the popular franchise (e.g. the right to vote) and the growth of the union movement.  These developments have presented corporations with potential threats to their power..."  Alex Carey & Andrew Lohrey, "Taking ...

by Walter Brasch There has been a lot in the news this past week. Most important, if measured by getting most of the ink and air time, is the continuing soap opera, “Charlie and the CBS Factory.” The latest in a seemingly never-ending story is that after Charlie Sheen melted down, was ...

ON OUR LAW PAGE: Vi Ransel on the history of the legal fiction of corporate personhood: There has never been a court – state, federal or supreme – that decided corporations are “persons” rather than “artificial persons.” And those courts were wise not to have done so, because while such a decision ...

Is this a low point for the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan? Or is this the necessary self-immolation and cleansing ritual to try to purify the mission? In either case, I'm shocked by the stark honesty of Jeremy Morlock's confession to killing Afghans for sport. An American soldier has pleaded guilty to being part of ...