As democracy and civil rights in Russia diminish every year, the country is becoming more of a police state. The voice of dissent is silenced by cynical and cruel country leadership.
AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
BOSTON — A Massachusetts man and two friends tried and failed to get into terrorist training camps and then plotted to kill two prominent U.S. p...
The Associated Press | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Investigators say a Philadelphia teenager wrapped a cat in duct tape, put it in a shopping bag and left it in a neighbor's backyard...
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home
My cousin in Iran called my uncle often in the early days of mass protests and police crackdowns. Those moments full of hushed tones and furrowed brows would snap us back to the reality of the situation.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
The question of life's meaning is a spiritual one -- one that has been largely lost due to the devaluing of spiritual and religious institutions in the country.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.
Ray Hanania | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on by the investigating and then arresting officer.
Eric Deggans | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home
Why did the Today show -- by far TV's most-watched morning show -- spend its first segment this morning discussing what the president said about the arrest of a black scholar in Cambridge, Mass.?
Stanton Peele | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
The arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. the other day reminded me of the time a few years back when I was arrested and taken to the police station.
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Professor Gates is someone who deserves better from America. Yet, at the end of the day, he was just another black man residing while black.
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.19.2009 | World
"Never again" has turned into "once again," and history repeats itself with genocide in Darfur.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Amy Goodman of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, while trying to free two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddo...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
IS THIS WHAT DEMOCRACY REALLY LOOKS LIKE?! There are characteristics essential to being a member of the peace and social justice organization, ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
A judge issued an arrest warrant for Daniel Baldwin on Friday when the actor didn't show up to court to give a progress report on his drug rehabilitat...
Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 11.03.2009 | World