News Analysis

If we truly seek better governance in the information age, we should strive to raise the level of education of our citizens, equipping Americans of all ages to be …

Historian of US surveillance practices, Alfred McCoy, points out that what the NSA has set up, despite the blowback it's now causing, is irresistible to Washington.

The official US beatification of Martin Luther King has come at the heavy price of silence about his radical espousal of economic justice and anticolonialism.

Dean Baker: Big money is at stake here and the big boys intend to get a win with TPP. Logic, numbers, and evidence face an uphill battle.

The goal has been to create a borderless world for goods and finance while building fences with razor wire to keep workers in place.

The release of Samer Issawi on December 23, 2013 was a moment of joy that will linger in the memories of all who witnessed it.

What's the matter with North Carolina? Just a couple of weeks into 2014, the state has already taken some drastic, anti-progressive steps designed to harm its least fortunate citizens.

The disparity between the wealthy minority and the billions living in suffocating poverty is greater than it has ever been.

How have national media kept up with the dramatically changing landscape of women's health? Not so well.

By 2030, the prison population age 55 and over is predicted to be 4,400 percent more than what it was in 1981. Some state and federal prison systems look …