News Analysis

The Millennium Development Goals will expire in 2015 and be replaced with the Sustainable Development Goals, which are intended to strengthen the international communityu2019s engagement with eradicating poverty and …

For many people in Brazil, a war has indeed broken out surrounding the current World Cup. Poor communities have been displaced by stadiums and related infrastructure for the event.

Despite her alleged participation in crimes committed at a Chilean torture and extermination center under Pinochet, former DINA agent Adriana Rivas lives in Australia where Chilean activists campaign for …

Municipal and state governments as well as NGOs that support small or independent businesses are finally beginning to address what changes they need to make to support the creation …

The campaign against Wisconsin's John Doe criminal probe is being led by groups bankrolled by the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation.

Media reports have uncovered doctors who only bill for the most complicated and high-priced office visits, and ambulance companies in New Jersey who ferry patients to and from dialysis …

The insurgent tactics employed by the opposition in Venezuela belie its central argument that the inherent failings of socialism have led Venezuela down a disastrous path.

The death of a Pennsylvania mother in jail last week has once again highlighted the punitive cycle of criminal justice debt.

These young people, thought to number in the thousands across the country, are trapped in a kind of purgatoryu2013facing charges in adult court and held in adult facilities.

State and private attempts to silence and isolate public supporters of the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement are eerily reminiscent of McCarthyist tactics to silence, destroy and intimidate political …