News Analysis

Following its spectacular plunge from grace in 2008 when its banking system crashed, inflicting huge damage on foreign creditors as well as on local residents, Iceland caught attention for …

Chicago teachers have beaten their anti-education, anti-union mayor before. And they could do it again.

“[Tunisian dictator] Ben Ali's departure on January 14, 2011 released a host of formerly unaired and long-suppressed grievances. After decades of repression, many Tunisians are talking openly across the …

Angela Merkel's face usually displays a rather plain, friendly, almost benign expression, matching her simple, benign words. But in rare unguarded moments, some claim, they glimpse a very hard …

The downturn caused by the collapse of the housing bubble was the key factor behind both soaring profits and rising disability rates.

The FreePress staff urges President Obama to choose a FCC chair who will restore integrity to that position.

Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, Stephen Zunes analyzes the political and social reasoning behind this scandalous affair.

Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his eloquent words. U.S. and Israeli journalists called it a …

Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but just try getting your day in court.

Then they complain about the cuts, but still demand cuts somewhere else and add new demands that someone ELSE decide what should be cut.