News Analysis

Black male unemployment is 14.8 percent, and the current trend is up.

The Bowles-Simpson plan called for a reduction in the annual cost of living adjustment for Social Security that is equivalent to a 3 percent cut in benefits.

F.B.I. agents on a hunt for leakers have interviewed current and former high-level government officials from multiple agencies in recent weeks, casting a distinct chill over press coverage of …

Canadian journalist Dawn Paley dispels the notion that nearly a trillion dollars spent on eradicating illegal drug trafficking (since Richard Nixon's administration) has shown any serious success.

US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century.

There is little doubt that a lot of cybercrime, cyberespionage and even acts of cyberwar are occurring, but the exact scale is unclear and the financial costs are difficult …

Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. What happened to make it a hotbed for terrorism, ethnic cleansing and a civil war which could destabilize the entire region?

Corporate wellness programs, according to critics, would rather place the blame solely on the plate of individual workers.

A favorite neocon theme is that the superiority of Western culture explains the worldu2019s wealth disparities, not the accident of natural resources and the aggressive use of military force.

The White House already tried cutting all three main entitlement programs, last year (cuts to Medicaid are actually cuts to Obamacare, for what itu2019s worth, since an expansion of …