News Analysis

Today, the nation is abuzz over Mitt Romney bluntly cold comment: “I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.”

How many missed meals does it take to be poor? It's a question at the root of the latest campaign to redefine what it means to …

Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates. …

Lenin graces the cover of a recent issue of The Economist. The Financial Times is running an entire series on the “crisis in capitalism.” Francis Fukuyama, a recovering neoconservative, …

Belleville Nuclear Power Plant, France, August 27, 2011. (Photo: coralinetheblue) French researchers have confirmed that childhood leukemia rates are shockingly elevated among children living near nuclear power …

Khalid Salman, whose sister and children were killed in a 2005 incident with US Marines, at his family's cemetery where they are buried in Haditha, Iraq, on November 13, …

TRANSCRIPT BILL MOYERS: “Why do you think our nation is so divided? Is it because we’re so diverse or is there something else at work here?” Thanks for your …

Ever since December 27th, war clouds have been gathering over the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow body of water connecting the Persian Gulf with the Indian Ocean and the …

It's early arrivals for the eighth anniversary vigil of Dr. Dhafir's arrest - outside the Federal Building (where the trial was held, on February 26, 2011). Left to right: …

Part I – Two Democratic Elections There have now been two democratic elections in the Middle East as a consequence of the Arab Spring. One …