Labor

A majority of US professors are now adjuncts working on a contingent basis.

Before Edward Snowden revealed the NSA's sweeping collection of phone and other data, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said no such operation existed.

Here are five examples when the SWAT team was wholly unnecessary.

How does a $1,000 loan turn into a $40,000 debt? It's what can happen when high-cost lenders use the courts to collect.

In the “card check” process, one type of neutrality agreement, an employer agrees to recognize a union if a majority of workers sign union cards.

The manipulations behind the attack on pensions in Detroit's bankruptcy.

McKibben's latest book, “Oil and Honey,” chronicles his journey into ever-riskier and more confrontational activism.

Nelson Mandela was not the Barbie doll he's become in the media this week. The real Madiba knew it was necessary to defeat his enemies before he could forgive …

New report finds bank executives receive big bonuses, while 39 percent of frontline bank employees must rely on welfare because of insufficient wages.