Britain’s Pay Gap Widens Further As Fat Cat Salaries Exceed 183 Times the Average Wage

If the U.K. had a reason last year to ponder why the poor weren’t “storming the barricades” over income inequality, the county has even more reason to ask the question heading into 2016.

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Spanish Voters Reject Austerity and Corruption As Social Movement Leaders Rise

A Podemos-backed Sánchez government would open a new anti-austerity breach on Europe’s southern flank, as Spaniards reject a new economic model based on low wages and extreme job instability.

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Who’s Responsible For Poisoning Flint’s Water Supply?

The struggling Michigan city is reeling from a lead-poisoning crisis caused by bad state policies.

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More Snowdens Wanted: Germany's "Intelexit" Calls On Spooks To Give Up The Game

A German anti-surveillance collective is seeking to dispel apprehension among other spies who might be contemplating following in Snowden’s footsteps.

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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part I: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing

The relationship of the Syriza party with the Greek grassroots movements resisting austerity was a marriage of convenience that has ended in broken promises, lost opportunities and a bitter divorce.

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Spain to the Polls: Moving Away from Its Radical Platform, Podemos Has Lost Support

With national elections looming Sunday, descriptions of the party as the "best of a bad bunch" have become more common — especially among the country's vibrant citizen movements.

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Stingrays: A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone

The Intercept has obtained a secret, internal U.S. government document, thick with undisclosed information offering rare insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police.

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The Revolt of the Anxious Class Has Just Begun

For years I’ve listened to their growing anger – in union halls and bars, in coal mines and beauty parlors, on the Main Streets and byways of the washed-out backwaters of America.

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Thanks to Bernie, "Socialism" Is Most Looked-Up Word of 2015 on Merriam-Webster

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders sparked a 169% rise in look-ups, says the U.S. dictionary publisher, which “shows the term has moved beyond its cold war associations.”

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Positive Anxiety: The Takeaway from Paris

The climate summit – which got up off its knees, then to its feet and ended with hands raised and loud cheering – will go down in history as a turning point in the protracted, half-baked global efforts of the last two decades.

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