There are multiple similarities between Trump and the British monarch when looking at the 27 grievances the framers outlined in their 1776 declaration.
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How Podemos Works: The Party Born from Spain's Indignados Holds Great Lessons for U.S.
Since it's the takeover of our democratic process by big money that makes most Americans angry, Podemos is a story from which Americans could take heart.
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Elizabeth Warren Lobbying Query Leads Brookings Institution Fellow To Quit
A prominent Brookings fellow resigned after the Massachusetts senator accused him of failing to fully disclose industry funding tied to a study that criticized the U.S. Labor Department's plan to regulate brokerages.
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Mega Conspiracy? How the Case Against Kim Dotcom Reveals Flaws in American Justice
Vast resources of the U.S. government are being deployed at the bidding of the entertainment industry, which saw its profits threatened by Internet pioneers like Dotcom and his Megaupload content-sharing empire.
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What It Takes To Expose Corruption – For Ghana's Top Undercover Journalist, A Good Disguise
Anas Aremeyaw Anas has a range of tools he uses when trying o expose government corruption – from an array of wigs, prosthetic masks and tiny cameras, to feigning madness, posing as a street hawker and even dressing up as a rock.
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San Francisco Activists Shut Down "Climate Profiteers" In Flood Wall Street West
The action comes one year after protesters held a mass sit-in on Wall Street in New York City to highlight the ties between capitalism and planetary destruction.
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#BlackWorkersMatter: Confronting Race to Build a Stronger Movement for Economic Justice
Black workers have been, for the working class as a whole, the canary in the mine. What befalls the black worker inevitably confronts the bulk of the U.S. working class.
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In a Win for the Climate Movement, Shell Freezes Arctic Drilling
The oil giant abandoned its Arctic search for oil after failing to find enough crude, representing a big defeat for Big Oil after months of sustained protests.
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One Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements, Part I
While its purpose has changed and evolved over the decades, the BIS has always been a club for central bankers – one that has aided some countries more than others.
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"Who Pays" Report Shows Why Women Of Color Bear the Costs of Mass Incarceration
Surveys of hundreds of formerly incarcerated people and their families in 14 states show that the true costs, emotional and financial, continue long after incarceration ends and reach far beyond the individual being punished
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After Record Pollution, Parisians See Blue Sky As Climate Summit's Host Goes Car-Free
A rise in air pollution this year made France's capital the most polluted city in the world – so when Mayor Anne Hidalgo launched the idea of a car-free day, carbon exhaust was top of the agenda with the COP-21 conference close at hand.
