News Analysis

For transgender and gender nonconforming people, just going to the doctor means risking mistreatment, misdiagnosis, hostility or aggression.

It's increasingly clear that the online world is, for both government surveillance types and corporate sellers, a new Wild West where anything goes.

When you can get inmate labor for less than a dollar a day, it's hard to see the government's motivation for incarcerating fewer people. And it's all done at …

Rising tuition, faculty cuts and non-living wages for workers at Vermont colleges are prompting student labor organizers to ask if tuition dollars should be used to exacerbate inequality.

A ruptured Duke Energy pipe in Eden, North Carolina, caused the release of up to 82,000 tons of toxic coal ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated water into …

Few issues have become so intensely debated and politically charged as the need to reform the health care system.

While there is a growing ideological intimacy between centrist-right and extreme-right parties throughout Europe, the brutal treatment of migrants has been particularly egregious of late in Greece.

On January 25th, one of the largest and most significant environmental protests in years took place in the most unlikely of places - Salt Lake City, Utah.

Fracked wells and impoundments were once a far-fetched possibility in Florida, but soon they could be hitting close to home.

Last week, a trio of Vermont legislators introduced the Fourth Amendment Protection Act to prohibit any state support of the NSA's gathering of citizens' electronic data or metadata in …