Rebecca Abrahams

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh apologized to Georgetown University Law School student Sandra Fluke for calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" after she spoke out about her support for requiring health care providers to cover women's birth control. Yet in his "apology" he sounds more like...

Amtrak has endured an attempt by the U.S. House of Representatives to cut all funding and another to cut $447 million. The company continues to struggle for survival, standing to lose $224 million already included in the House budget bill for fiscal year 2011. It's no secret that the rail's...

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Academy Award winning producer Lawrence Bender and director Lucy Walker's documentary Countdown to Zero is an extraordinarily powerful and disturbing film that lays out the case for global nuclear disarmament.

I had the privilege of interviewing Lawrence Bender on this issue.

"This movie...

Poor ventilation and rising methane levels created deadly conditions at Massey's Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine said veteran coal miner Stanely Stewart, testifying before a U.S. House of Representatives hearing in Beckley, West Virginia Monday. Stewart, who spent the last fifteen of his thirty-four years as coal miner at Upper...

For anyone who has yet to connect the dots between Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship's history of buying judicial seats, his ability to dodge multi-million dollar lawsuits and his attempts to de-unionize and de-regulate the mining industry, a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder...

The number of anti-government "Patriot" groups in the United States has increased in the last year by 244 percent up from 148 documented groups in 2008 to 512 groups in 2009, according to a recent Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) report entitled "Rage on the Right."

The stunning...

Harsh warnings from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week, charging Iran is "moving toward a military dictatorship." Clinton addressed the administration's plan to sanction the Revolutionary Guard, which controls Iran's nuclear program as well as the country's infrastructure, oil resources and technology sectors. The U.S. government has...