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Under the current electoral system, corporate-funded politics are strangling democracy.

At the 60-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, separate is still not equal.

California has contracted with a private prison corporation to open a 260-bed women's prison. But will a new prison address the overcrowding and medical neglect facing the state's female …

US immigration policy, as well as its foreign policy and economic system, has moved much of Central America toward greater violence, poverty and instability.

President Obama announced an executive order to help five million Americans pay off their student loans, and more.

Have real Keystone XL terrorism threats been ignored, while nonviolent activists have been labeled potential ecoterrorists?

For the low-income communities that lost a neighborhood school, the effects are still palpable one year later.

The idea of storing radioactive nuclear waste inside a hollowed-out salt cavern might look good on paper. But serious problems could result if there is fracking nearby.

Last week, the President announced plans to cut carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, and more.

When night falls, there are over 1.3 billion people, mostly in the developing world, who live in virtual darkness because they have no access to electricity.