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Here are the worst TV shows, movies, and songs of 2011.

From the pizza driver who snitched on a pot patient to cannabis 'deaths' and vodka tampons, 2011 was a year of great drug propaganda.

Since the police commissioner told the NYPD to follow the books on marijuana arrests, all that's changed are the court proceedings that unfairly criminalize thousands.

Industries, communities, natural resources, even sports leagues have collapsed as Ronald Reagan’s corrosive vision has become dominant.

The "people's caucus" is also going on in Des Moines.

The prosecutors are focusing on US-based BP engineers and at least one supervisor who they say may have provided false information to regulators on drilling risks.

“The South†is an idea too often wrapped in a fog that emanates from the left as well as the right.

The business community is screaming that the higher wages will "cost jobs," but the data suggest otherwise.

Paul's endorsement from a pastor who wants the death penalty for gays exposes his links to radical Christian Reconstructionists.

New York City public school educator Diana Senechal talks about the problems with our educational system, the meaning of solitude, and the dangers of immediacy.

Why isn't it a bigger scandal when politicians chip away at our rights to control our bodies and our sexuality?

A court case resulting in a "finding of fact" that Iran assisted al Qaeda is a tapestry of recycled fabrications and distortions of fact from a bizarre cast of characters.

Fish are the last wild food that most of us will eat.

Dirt? Morning sex? You bet. Novelist Alison Pace shares tips for body and mind to kick off the new year.

Frank discusses one of the most important political developments of the Obama presidency: how the crash of 2008 served to strengthen the political right.

Here are some predictions for where the anti-choice movement will try to go in 2012.

Over 4,000 citizens were detained or deported in 2010 alone.

Tension between popular will and the political establishment makes this a time of hope and frustration for the drug reform movement.

A new report finds evidence of forced child labor in Burkina Faso.

An alarming series of incidents offers some insight into how casual police have become about deploying "less lethal" weapons.