While Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney attempts to distance himself from the scandalous fallout over the hijinks of his former Arizona co-chair Sheriff Paul Babeau, the tireless Citizens for a Better Arizona group plans to remind TV viewers of the Republican debate in Mesa tonight of...

As millions of pounds of explosives from mountaintop removal strip mining operations continue to devastate historic mountain communities in central Appalachia, a powerful new music video released this week by the beloved American Roots band Magnolia Mountain captures the haunting grief and stories of stricken families in America's cradle of...

Let us now praise what's right with Arizona -- starting with one nationally celebrated Tucson educator who has steadfastly defended the interests of school children and held his ground amid the swirl of crazy national headlines and relentless attacks on Tucson's acclaimed but now outlawed

When Your Environmental Road Trip documentary screens at the Big Sky Film Festival in Missoula, Montana on Monday, February 20, producer Mark Dixon and director Ben Evans should be carting a trunkload of well-deserved national and international awards in their beloved "Rachel Car," the Ford Escape...

While the Arizona state legislature moves along two bills that will legally place guns and Bibles into public school classrooms, one Mexican American Studies teacher approached Tucson Unified School District administrators today with a simple request on the eve of the state's centennial celebrations: Release the...

Nearly six decades after President Dwight Eisenhower overruled the "leadership of demagogic extremists" and sent federal troops to protect desegregation efforts in Little Rock, Arkansas, Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild has more than one reason to be concerned about his city's negative image.

Amid national

One of the most heartening moments of solidarity in the Tar Sands Action movement took place last summer: A contingent of Appalachian coalfield residents, whose homes are literally under siege from daily blasting and stripmining fallout, took their place at a White House sit-in and went to jail...

From the high plains of Wyoming to the urban centers of Atlanta, Chicago and New York City, hundreds of schools launched a historic teach-in movement today to incorporate lesson plans from the banished Mexican American Studies program in Tucson in their own classrooms.

Organized by the Teacher Activist...

What happens in Arizona doesn't stay in Arizona.

As Tea Party state education chief John Huppenthal retreats into his office after an embarrassing national media tour on Arizona's extremist Ethnic Studies crackdown, and Tucson Unified School District administrators continue their slide...

As the nation watches the Tucson Unified School District's spiral into disarray, hundreds of students have walked out of their Tucson schools today in a coordinated protest against the banishment of the district's acclaimed Mexican American Studies program.

Pouring into the downtown Tucson area from...

Returning to the classroom after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, students and teachers will be greeted by a tremendous amount of confusion and potentially traumatizing fallout from last week's extraordinary ban on books in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD), as part of the suspension...

With their district already under an embarrassing desegregation order, the Governing Board of the Tucson Unified School District acquiesced to the demands of notorious Tea Party state officials last night and voted 4-1 to terminate the city's nationally acclaimed Ethnic Studies/Mexican American...

As the nation faces the first anniversary of the tragic shooting in Tucson on January 8th, Tom Zoellner's stunning new book, A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America, will not only stand as a heartfelt...

On the first anniversary of her untimely death, Judy Bonds' legacy remains as vital as ever to besieged and largely abandoned American citizens defending their lives and land from the fallout of reckless mountaintop removal operations in the central Appalachian mine fields.

Today is Day 12,580 of the...

Pima College freshman Mayra Feliciano probably didn't even have time to dwell on the latest episode in the Ethnic Studies witch hunt this week. Working her way through college, the Ethnic Studies alumni anticipated state administrative Judge Lewis Kowal's ruling to uphold Arizona's bizarre ban against Tucson's acclaimed...

How about some real reality TV?

While their citizenship fates still remained mired in political debates, immigrant youth and artists with Dreamers Adrift, a groundbreaking creative arts project, is producing a brilliant series of videos and theatrical works on the reality of daily life...

Instead of bogging down Durban last week in a bureaucratic roundabout of denial and delay, negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Conference should have jumped a cargo plane to the Inupiat village of Kivalina, on the far reaches of Alaska.

Thankfully for us, and the world,...

Two words stood out in the AP news story on Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law yesterday: BREAKING: Supreme Court says it will rule on Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants

Within minutes, "illegal immigrants" headlined newspapers online across the country, such as the New York Daily News:

What better form of theatrical art than the farce to capture the absurdity of the Arizona state officials' infamous witch hunt of Tucson's embattled Ethnic Studies program?

In the tradition of the ancient pastorela, recreating the biblical pilgrimage of modern-day shepherds along the borderland highways connecting Sonora and...

In an unprecedented call today, U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor (D-AZ) released a statement in support of a growing tidal wave of demands for the resignation of disgraced Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

In advance of tonight's historic town council meeting...