News Analysis

All children need to see inspiring, courageous characters — who look like them — in literature.

The biggest culprit of rising mortality rates in the rural United States is limited access to health care and challenging economic circumstances.

After concerns of a “hacked” 2016 Presidential race and an unverifiable “loss” in Georgia that again defied pre-election polling, the facts are still missing.

Body counts don't begin to capture the psycho-social toll of drone warfare, which leaves survivors living in perpetual fear.

The gun lobby's new “recruitment ad” is deliberately crafted to stir anger and fear.

Japan is selling debt to its own central bank, which returns the interest to the government.

The Federal Communications Commission quietly proposed reshaping a key way rural Americans stay informed.

Instead of surging yet again in Afghanistan, realize that all the US military in its present mode of operation can do to change that reality is make it worse.

The Trump administration aims to slash spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

In this country, we don't have to know that in US wars real people die.