News Analysis

After an Election Day that saw a number of wins for progressive causes nationwide, activists opposed to “corporate personhood” — the notion that corporations have equal rights to individuals …

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, in a move initiated by the Obama administration, has voted to waive Bush-era human rights restrictions on military aid to the Islam Karimov dictatorship …

Latino college enrollment numbers have reached unprecedented levels across the United States. To be sure, it’s a huge gain. But now many experts worry that the rise in college …

Many of the efforts around the country to advance an extreme, right-wing, corporatist agenda on the public were repudiated Tuesday night. The message is clear: An informed and energized …

In a short piece entitled “The Human Toll of the U.S. Drone Campaign,” Glenn Greenwald noted that the population of the United States is kept in the dark about …

Over a quarter century ago, in 1984, the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Tax Justice released its first in-depth report on how much America's top profitable corporations were actually paying …

Washington Heights residents marched 11 miles to Wall Street, challenging occupy's reputation as a “white-led” movement. On a beautifully warm Monday in early November, several hundred protesters …

In 1769, J. H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre, a French royal officer, said he was not so sure that coffee and sugar were "really essential to the comfort of …

“These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder which, as they kiss, consume.” - William Shakespeare, Romeo …

(Photo: denovich) Stephen Anderson, a former New York Police Department (NYPD) narcotics detective, recently testified that he regularly saw police plant drugs on innocent people as a …