News Analysis

We're sitting on a “methane bomb” in the Arctic region - and climate change is releasing it.

A UN Human Rights Committee excoriates the US civil and political rights record, enumerating 25 lapses - including torture, drone attacks, police violence, racialized justice, Guantanamo, criminalization of homelessness …

It has become more and more apparent that those who represent the public are not listening to the people.

All the plans purport to end the bulk phone records collection program, but there are big differences.

The Egyptian revolution should been seen neither as an uncomplicated success nor a mere staging ground for pessimism.

On March 25, William Bugatti, a 43 year old human rights worker for Karapatan, one of the Philippines' main human rights organizations, was shot to death. He was the …

Since the resumption of the US-brokered direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on 29 July 2013, Israeli occupation forces have killed forty-seven Palestinians.

Chomsky talks about how indigenous peoples are trying to save the world from anthropogenic climate disruption and the havoc being wrought by “really existing capitalist democracies.”

Leaked documents obtained by a Nashville TV station reveal communications between the employees of two Tennessee Republicans and a network of antiunion professionals during the United Auto Workers' …

The “Bring Them Home” campaign challenges politicians to act on their promises of immigration reform.