A day after Sean Penn testified in the Senate that Haiti is on 'the razor's edge', the Haitian people continued to struggle to fill basic housing and food needs. Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization runs a camp of 55,000 displaced persons crammed onto the former golf greens of...

Hold on, let me get this straight: Bush gave the keys to the castle to a marauding bunch of plunderers by gutting every regulatory commission known to man and stuffing them with industry reps from the organizations they were regulating, spent the country's cash on extravagantly expensive no-bid contractors in...

The situation in Haiti is not good and may be getting worse. After a trip down there three weeks ago to film with a US delegation that included former Senator Bob Kerrey,

There is nothing 'silly and ridiculous' about Eric Massa's flameout departure from Congress. All the White House needs is Ramin Hedayati, the Daily Show's famous Fox News watcher, to know that Eric Massa is as serious as a case of flesh-eating bacteria.

It's foolish to be...

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At the climate protests here in Copenhagen I have a favorite sign: "Bla...bla...bla: ACT NOW!" It's so right on: we all know it's time to act. If only it were that easy.

There is something so incredible, so daunting, so impossible about the crush of humanity that has descended...

The current deadlock in climate change negotiations is alarming for those of us who think "Copenhagen" - also known as this December's United Nations Conference of Parties - will be the Olympics of climate change. Copenhagen is where humanity should rise to the occasion and leaders should sign a fair,...

In a case of bad timing, last week brought with it more below average temperatures in New York coupled with another chorus of headlines from scientists spelling out dire warnings about global warming. As scientists gathered in Copenhagen for an 'emergency meeting' reported that climate predictions of the Intergovermental Panel...

Is this the beginning of the end? These are troubling times, indeed. But the end being heralded herein is not the "end of days." Nor the end of capitalism as we know it. And not even is it the premature end of the Obama honeymoon. The beginning of the end...

Mark DeFriest - a.k.a. "The Houdini of Florida", "Wendy the Punk" and "Wizard" -- has played many roles in order to survive the worst that American prison life has to offer. Yet at the beginning of his incarceration, it was not even clear whether he belonged in prison at all.