News Analysis

About 300 million children in the world are living in areas with outdoor air so toxic that it can cause serious health damage.

Of late, out-of-state donors are writing very checks to support candidates and PACs in local school board elections.

Donald Trump and congressional Republicans will be able to pass an agenda that puts middle-class Americans at risk.

How corporate legal maneuvering used NAFTA to elevate a company's right to profit over a government's right to protect its citizens and the environment.

Abolition, then, is the only answer to a system whose currency is terror.

Michelle Farber reports on the circumstances of another police killing in Washington.

Some immigration advocates fear the president-elect will target half-century-old changes made by Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Sioux tribe is facing a pro-oil president-elect with personal investments riding on the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline.

openDemocracy editors from around the world react to the victory of the billionaire businessman.

Democrats sustained losses at every level of government. Even so, some state-level victories shine through.