News Analysis

Wealthy influences and special interests have too much power in Washington, which is why banks have not been held to a higher level of accountability.

This month, a new IUD became available to American women, and it may be a game changer.

Correcting for underreporting reveals that the safety net also did more to reduce deep poverty than previously shown, although 11.2 million Americans remained below half the poverty line.

The Court of Appeals struck down the US metadata collection program, but left it to Congress to come up with a legal fix.

It's called the urban survival gap and it literally determines whether millions of infants will live or die before their fifth birthday.

The clashes were the result of violent acts by the military police against public servants, mostly teachers of the state of Parana.

State laws based on the conservative group's model bill open to pre-emption by federal communications regulators.

US and NATO military actions often have more to do with geostrategic concerns than humanitarian goodwill.

It's been remarkable to see how long Europe has been able to keep a broken economic model going well beyond its sell-by date.

Passing fast track will essentially pre-approve the secretive TPP agreement.