News Analysis

Hagel's proposal is already receiving pushback from Congress.

Activists are pushing back against the proposed prison expansions in Massachusetts and advocating for implementing alternatives to relying on bail and pretrial incarceration.

Social-media profits contribute to anti-social behavior, including tax avoidance, gentrification and big bucks to anti-democratic causes.

The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.

Richmond's city council is only one vote short of the supermajority needed to pursue eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages and renegotiate them on behalf of homeowners, and it …

In June, the US Supreme Court ruled that states and local governments with a history of discrimination no longer needed to submit new voting laws for federal approval.

A powerful set of financial players, namely, private equity firms, is continuing to expand the scope of their activities with little scrutiny.

Arizona and Uganda are nine thousand miles apart, but they were side by side in the news this week, due to extremist anti-gay laws that spring from and are …

That our current government has been willing to fight for more than seven years - maybe all the way to the Supreme Court - to weaken legal whistleblowing protections …

Despite the fact that we assume the Cold War is long over, both contemporary propaganda as well as US actions belie that “fact,” as evidenced by current US anti-communist …