News Analysis

Over the last three decades, the price of a year of college has increased by more than 1,200 percent.

Kicking the polluters out of the negotiations may sound like wishful thinking. But there is a precedent: the global effort to regulate the tobacco industry.

Turning over the pension plan to insurance companies will almost certainly raise the fees collected by the financial industry.

Just a few decades ago, accumulating debt in and as a result of attending college was virtually unheard of.

New York City's new beauty queen Kira Kazantsev volunteered at Planned Parenthood, and the right wing has labeled her a “baby killer.”

Wisconsin election officials and advocates are being forced to make an “extraordinary effort” to adjust to voter ID restrictions that were just reinstated by a federal appellate court.

Restructuring through capitalist globalization has brought about an important shift in Palestinians' relationship to Israel.

Greece's media landscape has been marked by ever-declining freedoms of speech and the press.

It sure makes running for municipal office a lot easier if your name is Al rather than Eduardo Martinez.

Although the standard response to police and corrections staff violence is calls for improved training, violent behavior by uniformed officers is often deeply tied to a lack of monitoring …