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Ignoring the benefits of taxes as a revenue source forces us into depending on the people who crashed the economy to fund our infrastructure.

The “privates” in much-touted “public private partnerships” make billions by seeming to lose millions in US transportation projects.

Here are seven worst-case scenarios in a part of the world where the worst case has regularly been the best that's on offer.

An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.

Judge Richard A. Posner's courageous reversal of his opinion on photo ID voting laws should convince the US Supreme Court that such laws violate the US Constitution and the …

The grotesque court testimony brought to mind the period in spring 2006 when torture and forced feedings were rampant - not only at the CIA annex at Guantanamo but …

The botulism bacterium is the most toxic natural substance on Earth, and for these birds it is essentially just widespread food poisoning.

Those who fight against neoliberalism must not settle for reforming a system that is as broken as it is dangerous. Any viable, transformative struggle will need a boldly, democratic …

"Even though I've been called every name in the book by my prosecutor, former US Attorney Christopher Christie, and labeled as the 25-year-old ‘mastermind’ who deserved to serve a …

The too-big-to-fail banks have collectively grown 37% larger since 2008.