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Two works by young scholars of color bring fresh perspectives to the history of mass incarceration and the rise of debtors' prisons.

Presidential campaigns offer a sneak peek into natural resource policies.

A proposal to crack down on predatory lending has sparked a showdown between the payday industry and activists fighting to end the debt trap.

Revolt against the inevitability of globalized capitalism takes diverse and often desperate forms when “there is no alternative.”

Our democracy doesn't work because our lawmakers are bought and paid for by special interests like Monsanto.

When it comes to understanding nonviolence, its principles and strategic dynamics, our media is sorely lacking.

Donald Trump is facing a new wave of controversies.

“Trump's pathway to success is littered with bodies.”

Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement.

From new research on the Great Recession, still more evidence that maldistributions of income and wealth really matter.