News Analysis

The current Battle of Richmond pits Big Oil and Wall Street against the citizens of the working-class city of Richmond, California. What's at stake is the future of our …

California's Department of Food and Agriculture just published a draft plan that would allow the CDFA to spray any pesticide anywhere, at any time, for any pest, with no …

As election day nears, it's time to examine unverifiable electronic voting machine votes.

As Election Day draws near, what are some of the ways that private prison corporations support their candidates? What do they receive in return?

The crisis of higher education is about more than a crisis of funding and an assault on dissent; it is also about a crisis of memory, agency and politics.

The clock is ticking down on the Committee's effort to release a public accounting of our nationu2019s failed and repugnant torture program.

A true tragedy, driven by a media frenzy, often provokes a misguided need to do something as quickly as possible and leads to bad public policy - like California's …

Sex workers and even trafficking victims are far more likely to end up in handcuffs than the sex traffickers allegedly lurking in the shadows.

The movie Kill the Messenger has brought to new attention to charges that the CIA was involved in drug smuggling in the 1980s.

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's extraordinary political demise is one of America's dirtiest secrets.