News Analysis

Massachusettu2019s Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has taken some serious fire this political season, especially in the past 24 hours.

With the election in full swing and Republicans campaigning against climate action, talks of using a carbon tax as a deficit reduction tool may be halted.

Bottom line: The odds of the fiscal cliff happening are greater than most people are currently willing to admit.

Robert Reich: Romney is giving the GOP exactly what it wants, but what the GOP wants is not what the rest of America wants.

Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes.

The real question to ask is why U.S. corporate media decide to pay more attention to some protests than others.

This week in the Election Countdown, eight people scaled 80-feet into trees to block Kthe southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline; A virus transmitted by biting flies has …

Throughout, the official U.S. position has remained fixed: the United States government condemns Islamophobia.

The Facebook generation votes less reliably than other age groups, and may not vote for Obama in the same numbers as before after being disillusioned following Obama's highly optimistic …

I was forced to contend with a variety of inequalities that placed huge constraints upon me, and others like me, as a direct result of poverty, racism and sexism.