Over time, our bodies lose their ability to cope with toxic chemicals, and each exposure has a more severe effect.

A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman is an indictment of torture and a powerful study of individual and collective memory.

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwaitis voted on Saturday to elect a new parliament calling for change in this oil-rich Gulf state, where the previous assembly was dissolved amid political feuding.

Thursday's Senate vote is good news for everyone who is fed up with a media system, that, in the words of Jon Stewart, is "hurting America."

Why do other people's sexual proclivities freak us out so much?

In this interview, Zinn explains why anarchism is often ridiculed as violent and chaotic.

YANGON (AFP) - World frustration with Myanmar boiled over on Saturday, with accusations of negligence and crimes against humanity over the regime's slow-moving response to the cyclone disaster.

If the huge African-American turnout numbers Obama received in the primaries occurs on Nov. 5, Obama could win 350 electoral votes.

In his new documentary, Errol Morris revisits Abu Ghraib, asking tough questions about what was and wasn't revealed in those famous photographs.

BOSTON (AFP) - Prominent liberal US Senator Edward Kennedy was rushed to a hospital in Massachusetts after apparently suffering a seizure, US news media reported Saturday.