News Analysis

A grand, and massively unequal, struggle over the future of Japan is underway.

When we combine relentless time pressure with the mind-numbing and physically destructive nature of most jobs, we have a recipe for acute human misery.

Portland's reform efforts come in the context of a national outcry against police violence.

Industrial soy production continues to expand in Argentina, pushing small farmers out of the countryside.

Men and women traverse spaces of war as well as of pastoral, agricultural and domestic care.

The Orwellian concept of “information warfare” holds that propaganda can break down enemies.

Bigger premiums, more cost sharing equate to big profits.

Many of the region's policy analysts are not enthused about the plan, with one calling it “more of the same.”

Two breakout hits on primetime television have exploded the US constructions of race, culture, class and family.

Unwanted pregnancy is contributing to a new “caste system” in the US.