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Around 2.3 million US citizens are behind bars -- a number that dwarfs any other country.

Is the U.S. teetering on the edge of bankruptcy?

A review of Tim Flannery's Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet.

We cannot rely on catastrophe to save us.

Should the "War on Terror" come to an end?

They were predicted to be a flash in the pan. So why are the anti-Wall Street occupations growing?

How the anti-corporate protests have evolved into the populist force now sweeping the nation.

The movement can propel significant changes. But #OccupyWallStreet and its allied occupations still have a ways to go before realizing their potential.

How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.

Building a progressive U.S. politics means looking beyond the back-and-forth swings of each election cycle.