Labor

Hate has become our highest form of patriotism and a form of eroticism.

A Bush-era economist recently likened progressive taxation to forceful kidney removal. Dean Baker puts his claim in context.

‘The Nation's Report Card’ shows minority students are making gains and shrinking the learning gap between them and white students.

Conservative media figures have used border security as a sticking point against which to derail reform, but here are the facts on border enforcement.

Eleanor J. Bader reviews ‘A Bitter Pill: A Lenny Moss Mystery’ by Timothy Sheard.

Some activists appear to believe that the public banks will push corporate banks out of operation.

Beekeepers are using empty public land around Seattle-Tacoma Airport to breed and distribute healthier strains of honeybees.

A paper by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shows that trash is accumulating in the deep sea, particularly in Monterey Canyon, off the coast of California.

Austerity policies continue to deliver pain to populations the world over, but shifts toward democratic self-direction deliver much-needed hope.

CEOs claim the US has the world's highest corporate tax rate, but they actually pay less than most workers