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Austerity deepens in Chicago this year with the firing of more than 3,000 total school staff after closing 50 schools.

A unique combination of pressures pushed the two leaderships to agree to a resumption of negotiations, but the prospects of the talks remains grim.

The GDP is the most commonly cited economic metric but it doesn't tell us what we need to know.

A group of hyper-capitalists, including Sir Richard Branson and Arian Huffington recently launched the “B-Team.” As Huffington describes it, the global business leaders come together to form the B-Team …

Sexual violence is rampant in youth detention facilities. We know this because many kids who were victimized while in custody have bravely spoken out. We also know this because …

You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some …

My dream is to publish a memoir. A degree in investigative journalism led me on a non-linear path to directing and producing an internationally-acclaimed documentary instead. Vanishing of the …

My son is 39 years old at this writing. Travyon could have been my grandson. My son will be 40 years old in November. He could feasibly have a …

Eduardo Galeano, one of the great global writers, takes us from 1916 to late tomorrow night via eight little excerpts from his new book, Children of the Days: A …

Conservatives continue to slash down government programs for the poor and elderly.