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CANCÚN, MEXICO — At the recent opening ceremony of the United Nations climate talks in Cancún, Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa spoke of climate change as a challenge that humanity must heed as a call to action. “Putting a stop to climate change is a true challenge,” he said, “and there is only one power to rise to this challenge: The power of humanity itself.” During a two-week summit, which ends December 10, negotiators and world leaders will once again attempt to hammer out agreements on climate change, carbon emission reductions, adaptation and mitigation.

It’s called walling by the CIA. As described in the International Committee of the Red Cross report obtained by Mark Danner, this technique involves placing

A new Pew Research Center poll gives us a clearer picture of where the country stands on global warming. According to the poll, the country’s stance on global

The 172-pages of answers (not including the appendix) provided by Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday reveal, as one would

A new report released today by the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank with close ties to the Obama administration, ranks the states with

I didn’t think that the quarrel between Orly Taitz and her former law clerk and (he claims) lover Charles Lincoln could get any stranger. Via Alex Pareene, it

The nation’s largest health care industries -- including the doctors, hospitals, insurers and drug makers -- made headlines earlier this week when, after a

Far-right anti-Obama blogger Pamela Geller got all misty watching the farewell address of the last American president. We do not have a President-elect that

Less than 48 hours after a Republican National Committee chairman candidates’ debate, during which contenders sang the praises of high tech and Twitter, the RNC

As the Wikileaks endless U.S. diplomatic document dump continues, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is battling back calls to resign for a UN espionage scheme , she’s leading the government’s defacto public relations campaign against Wikileaks and she’s battening down the hatches at the State Department . She is, in effect, in a war against the future the internet is promising to deliver as Wikileaks incrementally posts all of the 250,000 State Department cables it is alleged to possess.

Promoters of Canadian tar sands oil have launched a media campaign around the idea that by replacing Saudi oil with Canadian crude the U.S. can reduce payments to a government that oppresses women.

Last week, radical anti-abortion right’s group Operation Rescue told Life News that the Texas Medical Board has continued to investigate the group’s claims that women’s health clinics providing abortions in Texas were violating the law .

House lawmakers are on the floor as we speak debating a bill to provide $2 billion more to what proved to be a tremendously popular cash for clunkers program.

Some unsurprising comments this morning from Rand Paul, a Republican candidate to replace retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R) in Kentucky. From the halls of

According to a new report, Florida ranks 44th in the U.S. for long-term care.

Ever since the Bear Stearns bailout, the Fed’s opening of its discount window to investment banks, and the rethinking of Alan Greenspan’s legacy, there’s

The liberal group -- which recently campaigned for liberal Democratic senators to kill a health care bill that didn’t include a public option -- is asking its