News Analysis

The three-month limit on SNAP benefits for unemployed childless is already harsh; imposing it even in areas where unemployment is high would be punitive.

Jack Rasmus: A closer look of the US economy over the past year (July 2012 to July 2013) reveals a longer-term trend of the US economy weakening, not growing.

While consumer activism and trade pressure are important for workplace safety, the rules are made to be broken in places like Bangladesh.

A look at Egypt's constitutional declaration suggests that the road out of military dictatorship is fraught with peril.

With the recent announcement by the Netanyahu government that it intends to build 1,200 more settlement homes on disputed land in the West Bank u2013 even in the face …

During the last three months, we have been learning a great deal about massive and continuing wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of hundreds of millions of Americans …

An organized effort in the 1970s by what then was the extreme right wing has succeeded in making hatred of all things government, including government workers, a mainstream view.

In the new war play universe, you did need a scorecard to tell the players apart.

Researchers have found that when you factor race into the equation, the economic gap is even more pronounced.

President Obama and the mainstream U.S. press are blaming Russian President Putin for the breakdown in bilateral relations, but this simplistic view ignores the many U.S. government actions over …