Gov. Gavin Newsom is signing a bill that would allow for more homes to be built near transit stations, in an effort to address California's high housing costs.

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

A UK charity that portrays itself as a climate leader facilitated a £830,000 donation to the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank heavily funded by U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, DeSmog can ...

There are things the American public just can't be told. Here are a few examples. Universal healthcare, like Medicare-for-All, would dramatically reduce American healthcare costs. Cutting government spending usually just shifts costs onto the public or other government departments, and almost always increases those costs well beyond what was being spent before the cuts. Immigrants are good for the economy -- and also are human beings.

In August 1937, three German journalists were expelled from Britain for suspected espionage. Retaliation was a...

China said on Wednesday that trade wars had "no winners", after US President Donald Trump warned that the United States could stop buying cooking oil from the country.

This is the grave of George Meany. Born in Harlem in 1894, Meany grew up in the union world of New York. His father was a plumber and a union official. He instilled all those values in his son. He dropped out of high school when he was 16 to become a plumber and joined […]

Back in July 2006, I read somewhere that Owsley Stanley was still alive and selling jewelry in Australia. I found his website, read a bunch of his essays, and got...