News Analysis

Japan's massive government debt conceals massive benefits for the Japanese people, with lessons for the US debt

The same kinds of corporations are involved with different configurations and with different names that have the same mission: to hijack the name of free trade to impose all …

Both the Republican and Democratic Nation Conventions are over. Election Countdown has reactions from all around the country.

The testing fox is in the education henhouse and it is having a wonderful time. Take the mandated high-stakes tests, fall below an arbitrary cut score set by a …

Poll numbers may go up or down, but the bookies have pegged the election as an Obama win right from the start

The EU has the potential to evolve from a collective of nation-states into something much greater, but the current austerity policies are moving it in the other direction.

The NRA is more likely to pay heed to gunmakers at the expense of rank-and-file members, who actually tend to support gun control.

Unless the pre-existing condition nightmare is clearly and permanently eliminated from all health care situations, all of our health care will suffer.

On 16 March 2003, the last day of her life, 23 year old Rachel Corrie was in the Gaza town of Rafah standing in front of the Palestinian family …

We Detroiters are now entering a period of turmoil that is quite different in character from the devastation of the last 40 years. The crisis we find ourselves in …