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Coalition of citizen action groups defeats Walgreen's attempt to dodge U.S taxes by becoming a Swiss company.

Rosetta has arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. One of the most audacious space missions in decades, it is designed to reveal clues to the origins of the solar system, our home planet and life itself.

At intersections of social and economic justice, hundreds gather in Richmond California to build strategy for a 'just transition' away from an economy that is 'crashing planet.'

Among people who have moved long distances, the number of those who cite housing as their primary motivation for doing so has more than doubled since 2007.

According to the US Department of Labor, the affected employees worked at the firm's offices in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.

Dr, Dollar addresses a popular myth about minimum wage increases, and explains why inflation isn't as bad as some might think.

The war in Gaza has strengthened both the Muslim Right and the Jewish Right; while the results have been disastrous for the people of Gaza, they aren't good for the people of Israel either. Meredith Tax asks, what does this mean for the two state solution?

Why are union miners falling for the company line that there’s a “war on coal” when the coal and gas companies are really making a war on ALL of us, on our planet, on our children’s futures and certainly on those very miners who are marching on behalf of the coal companies?

For sheer surrealism, Miéville's The City and the City induces very strange feelings: it's a detective noir set in two eastern European cities that occupy the same space but refuse to accept each other's existence. Wallander would be on the next flight home to Sweden. Stross and Miéville aren't the only ones worth reading. Some remarkable writers are out there, available both in ebooks and in hard copy.

Here are the five top ways the US is actively helping Israel in its war on Gaza, and despite the US State Department's latest protest over the Israeli shelling of a school in Gaza.