...or, "How to spend $6 billion, create 600 jobs, and prop up the most unproductive sector of the military industrial complex for another generation."

Despite President Obama's campaign rhetoric of a world without nuclear weapons, despite the recent catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima complex, and despite the new START nuclear arms...

Ali Abunimah is the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. He is the co-founder and editor of the Electronic Intifada, and recently, of Electronic Iraq and Electronic Lebanon.

In the four years since Ali Abunimah published...

This past week the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (the state's equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency) heard a petition brought by the environmental group, New Energy Economy, that would create a state regulation requiring utilities and oil and gas companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions 3%...

Ayesha Khan, filmmaker (The Lifting of the Veil and Made in Pakistan), talks about the flooding which has left one third of her country under water and 20 million displaced. Though the disaster is greater than the earthquakes in Haiti and in Pakistan five years ago and the tsunami of...

Mohammed Omer is a 25-year-old Palestinian journalist who grew up in the Rafah refugee camp. His father was in Israeli prison for twelve years, and at age six Omer began to work to support his family. His teenage brother was killed by Israeli snipers...

Discovered only in 1992 by wildlife biologists, saolas are antelope-like bovine creatures who live in the forests on the border of Laos and Vietnam. They are elusive and rarely seen, even by local villagers, and cannot, apparently, survive in captivity--not a single saola exists in any zoo in the world....

Frederick Hertz, a divorce lawyer in a long-term unmarried same-sex partnership, has co-written with Emily Doskow a book called, Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnership, and Civil Unions. It covers a wide range, from the first same sex couple to apply for a marriage license...

Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in film isn't as one-dimensional as it was twenty years ago -- Latino actors are no longer cast only as gangsters and maids -- but it still has a long way to go. A young and brilliant independent filmmaker, Cruz Angeles, discusses his new film, Don't...

Richard Rhodes is best known as the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun, and Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race. But he's also a novelist and now a playwright; his new play, Reykjavik, is a true-to-life dramatization of the...

Howard Wooldridge, a retired Michigan police officer, rode his horse Misty across the U.S., talking to groups like Rotary clubs, Kiwanis, churches, Elks lodges, John Birch societies, and media about the failure of the so-called War on Drugs.

What are the advantages and disadvantages to legalizing drugs? What would...