News Analysis

Language in boilerplate contracts and the advice of advisers with conflicts of interest often serve to favor privatization of public services, such as highway construction, which can cost taxpayers …

We can save capitalism or save human civilization. There is no possible future that contains both.

There may be no bigger headache for the team owner Dan Snyder than the matter of his franchise's name: the Redskins. It's offensive, and a growing number of activists …

When Delhi state's November elections brought the new anticorruption Aam Admi Party to power, calculations about India's upcoming national elections were upset, and a previously narrow field suddenly widened.

Some argue that the inadequate early government response to the AIDS epidemic - including diagnostic, treatment, funding and research failures - is being repeated with Lyme disease, affecting hundreds …

The hidden ball in the debate over the NSA's collection of phone and e-mail metadata is that the NSA actually prefers the metadata approach because it strips away privacy …

Progressives should make clear the political and moral imperative of committing the resources of democratic government to achieving a just and equitable economy.

Peter Van Buren takes us through the labyrinth of NSA defenses, point by point, showing just what our favorite Constitution-shredders have to say and why it doesn't hold water.

As conflicts over land have increased in Argentina, resistance efforts by peasant farmers and indigenous communities have taken many forms.

If people outside the US wonder why Americans often seem so clueless about the world outside their borders, they could start with the mainstream media.