Nine local people will be honored in October when Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions and the Ventura College International Studies Program hold the fifth annual Earth Charter Summit and Awards Ceremony.

Opting In Having a Child Without Losing Yourself By Amy Richards Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 316 pages; $15 paperback Amy Richards has major feminist cred, and she's earned it. Shortly after graduating from Barnard in 1992, she founded the Third Wave...

In his new book, the head of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff for President Clinton says the U.S. needs to create community activists, reform immigration law and form a stronger government; that will lead to a more fair society,

Courtney Cowart barely escaped the collapsing World Trade towers in a terrifying flight from an adjacent building. But she returned days later to the edge of ground zero to organize a ministry in St. Paul's Chapel, where recovery workers came to sleep an

WITH a fresh charter and a string of business deals covering vast landholdings, the University of the Philippines (UP) may yet break free from the yoke of financial straits that has prevented it from becoming a true people’s university.