Poverty

Fast food workers in other countries earn the equivalent of $15 an hour and enjoy benefits, yet hamburgers cost no more.

It's estimated that more than half of America's foster children are on some sort of psychiatric drug. A practice one doctor calls u201cinstitutionalized child abuse.

Lambert Strether takes a look at Obamacare and how it is creating an imbalanced system underneath the guise of equality.

At stake here is the very meaning of social life and social death, and the continued legacy of slavery, both in the U.S. prison system and in the structure …

A long and slow-developing path forward might be called “evolutionary reconstruction.”

Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.

Launching a new show

“Republicans famously seem intent on being a party of white sanctuary,” writes Robert Borosage in the wake of GOP intentions to cut food assistance programs.

The blinding stereotype of poverty must be turned off in order to see clearly how we can address inequality today.

Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least twenty-two and a half hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are …