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Chris Hayes: We largely ignore the effect of extreme inequality that is, in the long run, the most destructive: the way it makes those at the top of the …

The ladder of opportunity for Americau2019s middle class depends on strong and accessible public educational institutions, libraries, state parks and municipal pools.

By 2011, American officials were already publicly fretting that the technology they have spent decades and billions of dollars developing is beginning to fall into the hands of other …

The people of Kivalina had reported the effects of warming temperatures, but had not received any concrete assistance to mitigate risks to their safety from erosion.

(Image: Counterpoint Press)Below is an excerpt from “The Awful Grace of God” from Counterpoint Press:  On April 3, 1968, an American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Memphis was stuck …

For the last half-century, capitalism has been a taboo subject in the United States. Among politicians, journalists, and academicsu2014and in public conversation generallyu2014the word has been avoided or else …

(Image: Columbia Business School Publishing)Excerpted from “Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance”, by Michael R. Powers. Copyright © 2012 Michael R. Powers. Used by arrangement with …

At the center of the traditional progressive theory is the hope that the political and economic power of the large corporation can be contained economically and politically through political …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)These days, there's one political point on which one can usually get consensus: Mainstream journalists are failing. In common parlance, most everyone “hates the media.” …

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent …