News Analysis

A study published last week in the journal Science adds more detail to the already widely acknowledged finding that fracking leads to earthquakes.

The future of a progressive social order requires a reversal of capitalism's control over states, labor and ideology.

A New York University law school board member, who owns nursing home companies, finds himself under the scrutiny of NYU law students for conditions at those facilities.

Cuban economist and ex-guerilla combatant Orland Borrego, who fought alongside Che Guevara during the Cuban revolution, will be advising Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

Despite President Obamas words about eliminating nuclear weapons, the US government continues to modernize its nuclear arsenal, including major new investments in a dozen state-of-the-art nuclear-armed submarines,

A reporter goes to Mississippi and encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights.

Monsanto's herbicide Roundup has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease epidemic that has appeared in Central America, Sri Lanka and India.

Research shows that government subsidies for the 1 percent are creating greater inequality.

Charles Koch was an active member of the controversial right-wing John Birch Society during its active campaigns against the civil rights movement.

Scattered among the barracks of this planetary war zone are scores of white flags, wielded daily by the many millions of people engaged in nonviolent resistance.