Economy

In today's On the News segment: Two homeowners facing eviction in Spain have committed suicide prompting the Spanish banking association to freeze all eviction orders in cases of

Unlike earthquake or hurricane, Haiti's cholera outbreak is a manmade disaster u2013 by the very agency supposed to protect it.

Stephen Downing,a retired deputy chief of police for the Los Angeles Police Department and Terry Nelson, retired from Department of Homeland Security on why they support treating addiction as …

A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research demonstrates that marriage alone does not ensure economic security and that most parents with below-poverty incomes who are …

Tom Engelhardt: Stop waiting for change, u201cbigu201d or otherwise, to come from Washington. It wonu2019t.

William Rivers Pitt: Truthout has not bought into the fantasy that everything is okay now; far from it.

In the stunning “The House I Live In,” filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has made a film about the expansive and many-tentacled topic of the drug war.

Legislators are likely to punt the deadline for cuts to the new Congress.

Starting today through November 14, everyday people across the country – families living in shelters since Hurricane Sandy, clergy, family farmers, people living with AIDS/HIV, and others – are …

We shouldn't trust the same people who ignored the housing bubble when they tell us we need to more cuts to social programs.