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Last week, historic legislation expanding Vermont labor law and allowing previously excluded early childhood educators to form their union was passed.

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The fight over the Conga mining project is one of Peru's largest current social conflicts.

The World Health Organization's most comprehensive report to date sounds a warning that we are entering a world where antibiotics have little effect.

Since shortages of critical drugs became a fixture of the American medical landscape a decade ago, pundits have proposed an array of incentives to encourage more production from pharmaceutical …

The degree of free-market education “reform” for Newark's schools has become a key issue in Tuesday's hotly contested mayoral race.

Privatizing infrastructure improvements depends on public money - and a lot of it, points out Ellen Dannin.

Considering the decimation of families and communities brought about by mass incarceration, what is the societal value of locking up people for such amounts of time?

Some people who have been involved in drone assassination campaigns in distant parts of the world, using the fruits of the NSA's electronic surveillance, are hoping to draw attention …

Noam Chomsky reminds us that caring about other people is a dangerous idea in America today, and he trades in ideas that defy scholastic disciplines and intellectual boundaries, says …