Austerity

National ‘austerity’ pressure to further cut the social safety net only increases the plight of US citizens struggling to survive, as Sasha Abramsky discusses in this excerpt from his …

While discussion of poverty has been lacking since President Reagan railed that the poor were responsible for their own plight, new signs of concern and fresh thinking have emerged, …

For Greece to overcome its crisis, the country's political culture must be changed, argues CJ Polychroniou, and that implies a new public philosophy, where, first and foremost, rights are …

Paul Krugman: The Netherlands has the kind of Grand Bargain that The Washington Post editorial page dreams of.

Moral status or dignity is not tied to a narrow quality or capacity such as medical, mathematical or linguistic knowledge.

New study shows that unless you are an bankster or a billionaire, you're not being represented in the United States Senate; rather than invest in infrastructure, Texas is destroying …

The bankers behind the European Union's imposition of neoliberal austerity in Greece have fed the rise of Golden Dawn with its

More than half of Michigan's 1.4 million black residents now live under rule by unelected emergency managers.

With Detroit's most valued treasures going to the highest bidder, it seems the city of Detroit has once again been violated by its corrupt government.

“To me, Greece is a crime scene,” says Greg Palast in this Truthout interview.