Around the world, calls for national autonomy have grown. Minorities are blamed but the real culprit is neoliberalism

Schools are resegregating, it’s getting harder to vote, too many are incarcerated—America is becoming more separate and less equal

After 9/11 the agency was given free rein to break the rules but when allowed to play dirty abroad, it’s difficult to stop at home

The underlying impulses, policies, priorities and structures that made the wars and economic collapse possible are still in place

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When Ray Kelly, the man Barack Obama is currently considering to lead homeland security, was the New York City police commissioner, he…

Let it be noted that on this day, Saturday 13 July 2013, it was still deemed legal in the US to…

In 1966, a little more than a year after Martin Luther King won the Nobel peace prize, only 33% of Americans had…

More than 100 demonstrators taking part in mass civil disobedience were arrested in Chicago on Wednesday as several thousand people marched against the largest proposed…

Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut is shocking and horrifying – the time and the place of these massacres…