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It’s well known that as the Truman White House made plans to use the first atomic bombs against Japan in the summer of 1945, a large group of atomic scientists, many of whom had worked on the bomb project, raised their voices, or at least their names, in protest.

Four Years Into the Recovery and We’re Just a Fifth of the Way Out of the Hole Left by the Great Recession

How three young undocumented activists risked everything to expose the injustices of immigrant detention—and invented a new form of protest.

Instead a negotiation process that is neither democratic and or transparent is likely to perpetuate a managed trade regime. The US refusal to eliminate its cotton and other agricultural subsidies torpedoed the Doha round of trade talks.

A community and labor coalition has just won a years-long battle against the largest private healthcare provider in San Francisco

'Amid political disturbances, it would be irrelevant to sing about cars or parties,' says rapper El-Banna to Ahram Online regarding the Breathe Hip Hop concert June 20.

Ex-IAEA chief and Nobel laureate to be named Egypt's new interim prime minister, three days after army ousts Morsi. The June 30 Front, an amalgam of several opposition groups, believe Elbaradei is "the voice of their demands"

Voting Rights, Tom Friedmnan,Student Debt, Kidnapped President, Frederick Douglass and Unemployment

Thanks to new technology, we know now exactly which microbes are crawling behind our ears, between our eyebrows, and especially on our feet. Kent Sepkowitz explains the gross new study.

More than two months after the deadly explosion in West, Texas, the state has done almost nothing to prevent future disasters.