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A homeless boy in Nepal. (Photo: Wen-Yan King) Washington, DC - The geography of poverty and social deprivation has changed dramatically over the last two decades. More …

Osama bin Laden is dead. You’ve seen the news. US troops stormed the mansion where he was hiding, an hour’s drive from Islamabad, in the backyard of Pakistan’s elite military …

Berkeley, Calif. - Hungry students and their supporters sit for the seventh day in front of University of California at Berkeley’s California Hall, after a futile meeting with University …

President Obama’s shocking May Day announcement that Osama bin Laden has been killed and his body captured promises to usher in a new era of U.S. foreign and domestic …

(Image: AK Press) Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America By Ben Dangl AK Press, 2010 The …

On Mother’s Day, it’s easy to get caught up in the Hallmark image of Mom. Even in the 21st century, the idealized mother often appears as straight, married and, …

Seventeen-year-old Gaby Rodriguez recently made national news when she revealed to her entire Toppenish High School that the baby bump she had been slowly developing over the last six …

In the fall of 2007, workers at the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois were using a wire brush to clean a badly corroded steel pipe — one in …

(Photo: Nick Mottern) On the morning of Friday, April 22, 2011, protesters of the MQ-9 Reaper killer drone operations at Hancock Field air base in Syracuse, New …

Mounting criticism of the way the Egyptian Army is governing Egypt grew louder yesterday with press reports that one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers has been …