Economy

(Photo: brownpau) Washington - Financial speculators are gambling on oil the same way they gambled on the housing market a few years ago — a frightening prospect for the …

Drones are the future, especially in foreign wars, surveillance and law enforcement. In all sizes, armed and unarmed, drones are proliferating at home and abroad. Some are loaded …

Rita is only in her 30s, but she knows all about death. What she didn't know until recently is how expensive it is, especially now in the Great Recession, …

Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people's cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. …

Washington - The problem for Mitt Romney, assuming he eventually wins the GOP nomination, is that a general election campaign isn't really like an Etch a Sketch. Alas, traces …

Jonathan Weisman of the Times wrote an article about the reluctance of many Republicans in Congress to extend policies that are traditionally favored by big business (and the Chamber of Commerce), such as …

The candidate of the Front de gauche in the French presidential election (22 April and 6 May), Jean-Luc Mélenchon is interviewed by the editors of the weekly magazine l'Humanité …

David Koch, a billionaire known for his family's contributions to conservative causes, during an interview at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 4, 2011. (Photo: Gretchen …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)"I will do all I can to help you," Montague answered. "And you must be very severe with me," Lucy continued, "and not let me spend …

At the center of the traditional progressive theory is the hope that the political and economic power of the large corporation can be contained economically and politically through political …