Economy

Years after fracking technology prompted an oil and gas rush, researchers are finding radioactive and other pollutants near facilities, adding to mounting evidence of environmental damage, but the federal …

The GOP's federal shutdown is on the verge of becoming the most fiscally irresponsible gesture in modern political history.

Chemicals which have been banned in most other countries get dumped in Brazil due to lax legislation and intense lobbying from chemical companies.

Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update on meaning of government shutdown and possible default; new French law gives workers say on selling companies; biggest billionaire US land-owners; grocery …

The trade agreement President Obama will be urging this week be passed on a fast track that will not give Congress time to read and study it, the Trans …

For the first time in 17 years, our government is officially shut down.

Paul Krugman: “It was, I suppose, predictable that Europe's austerians would claim vindication at the first hint of an economic upturn.”

In the end, the Republicans won. A majority in Congress, made up of Republicans who understood they'd won and Democrats who feared a government shutdown, would have voted for …

Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects - and to help people in remote Indian villages understand this, one filmmaker brought them to the West. Here's what they thought …

We are smack dab in the middle of the most irrational, damaging, stupid, reckless, feckless fundraising drive in the history of currency.