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Shoppers at Target in West Nyack, New York. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times) The battle of the “swipe fees” has been hard to …

Edward Pyles (pictured) and his son, E.J., four, take shelter at Jerry Belk Activity Center, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, April 30, 2011. The two were displaced by the fatal storms …

Laura Moye is director of the Amnesty International USA Death Penalty Abolition Campaign. In this interview, Moye talks about 42-year-old Troy Davis, an African American who has been on …

This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency formalized its Haitian deportation policy. ICE claims it will consider medical and humanitarian factors when deciding whether to deport someone to …

It's tempting to expect perfection from those we admire, but we romanticize lone heroes at our peril. A few years before one-time supporter Jon Krakauer challenged the truthfulness of …

Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for …

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 …