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Corporations and private intelligance firms are spying on whistleblowers, activists and journalists, but is anything being done to hold them to account?

The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.

Richmond's city council is only one vote short of the supermajority needed to pursue eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages and renegotiate them on behalf of homeowners, and it …

In June, the US Supreme Court ruled that states and local governments with a history of discrimination no longer needed to submit new voting laws for federal approval.

Last Wednesday, more than 400 San Francisco city employees marched from the city's Department of Human Resources to Twitter headquarters a few blocks away. The workers chanted, "Twitter, you're …

A powerful set of financial players, namely, private equity firms, is continuing to expand the scope of their activities with little scrutiny.

Arizona and Uganda are nine thousand miles apart, but they were side by side in the news this week, due to extremist anti-gay laws that spring from and are …

That our current government has been willing to fight for more than seven years - maybe all the way to the Supreme Court - to weaken legal whistleblowing protections …

Climate change activists should look to North Carolina for lessons on how to build a broad and diverse movement powerful enough to challenge the corrupt status quo on several …

Avner Offer, an economic historian describes neoclassical economics as a “just-world theory,” one that posits that not only do good people get what they deserve but those who suffer …