News Analysis

An examination of the legal and practical steps the government may have taken to secretly collect data.

Whether parents are in heterosexual marriages, are LGBT, single, or part of collective households, teaching children living in a misogynist world to respect women as much as they respect …

High frequency trading utilizes new technologies to create an economy of speed that employs mathematics and physics to generate global markets that are neither transparent nor able to be …

In 1791, the English philosopher and death penalty abolitionist Jeremy Bentham published the design for his “Panopticon” prison- a structure Bentham hoped would embody the utilitarian ideals of a …

While the Obama campaign touts prosecutorial discretion as a successful way of dealing with immigration, many critics believe otherwise.

Pretrial hearings for five alleged terrorists behind 9/11 are ongoing, but evidence of their guilt may be compromised if reports that much of it was obtained by various torture …

Annually for the past three years this writer has made leading edge predictions about the trajectory of the US and global economies for the 12-18 months to come. The …

It certainly feels to me more peaceful and convivial in Germany and Holland, for example, than in the U.S. Aside from the oft-heard complaint of the U.S. as a …

President Obama's inability to follow through with immigration reform could put millions of undocumented workers lives at risk.

What are some of the key, dominant institutions that have facilitated the development of the oligarchic class?