So who's your favorite crazy running for office this year?

Is it Rich Iott, running for Congress in Ohio, who likes to dress up as a Nazi? Iott has a hard-on for the SS, no less, specifically the Wiking Division, which waged genocidal war on the Eastern...

What if we had a Global Work Party, with well over 7000 events, in an astonishing 188 countries, in which solar panels were put up, trees were planted, and many other practical things were done in an effort to show the powers-that-be that there is a demand for...

There are twenty million Pakistanis suffering from floods, threatened by cholera, dysentery, and starvation. The UN says six million people need immediate help in one of the worst natural disasters that organization has ever seen. This a tragedy right now, but it's also a forecast of the enormous disasters that...

New York City is proposing to change the rules governing its community gardens, eight years after a contentious effort to protect the gardens. Gardeners and other community members don't think the city's proposed rules go far enough to protect the gardens. The Times and the New York...