It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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10 Ways America Is Stepping Into a Police State
In the past decade the United States has moved toward a police state in small but key ways.
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Cairo On Edge: Egyptians' Fears Grow as Muslim Brotherhood Violence Spreads
The fear of continued violence is again on Egyptians' minds after numerous reports of Muslim Brotherhood violence occurred in recent days following the country’s “second revolution” that ousted President Mohamed Morsi.
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The BART Rebellion: Transit Strike in Bay Area Exposes Deep Fissures
As a temporary, one-month contract extension was reached to stop last week's BART strike, workers demanding higher pay and a better contract say their strike is about a broader sense of social and economic justice.
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Why Brazil's Rational Response to Protests Is An Example To Follow
Brazil's government has chosen an unorthodox response to the massive protests that swept the country — it actually responded to protestors' demands. Could it be an example for other countries to follow?
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Sustainable Food Systems: How Locavores Are Leading the Way in Athens, Ohio
After more than 40 years in existence, the Athens farmers market is one place where locavorism — which emphasizes local production and consumption to mitigate food miles — is out in front.
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Fighting the Surveillance State: An Interview with Iceland's Birgitta Jonsdottir
Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden represent just the tip of the iceberg of a popular resistance that is challenging the U.S. government’s excesses in surveillance, says the Icelandic MP.
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Egypt celebrates as transition takes shape
Black, White and Red flags overran the scene all across Egypt on Wednesday evening as the country celebrated its “second revolution” with the ousting of embattled President Mohamed Morsi after mass street demonstrations saw the military intervene to bring about a transitional period.
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California's Fracking Gone Wrong, Part 3: In Monterrey, Residents Are Resisting
For Riley Jacobsen, who lives over the Monterrey shale deposit, fracking is personal.
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This 4th of July, Remembering Theodore Dreiser and What "Radically American" Means
Unlike his fiction, Dreiser’s political prose is less well known. But today's conditions of corruption and inequality again, as in his time, demand us to be “radically American”: a term that Dreiser used to describe himself.
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Depositors Beware: Bail-In Is Now Official E.U. Policy
E.U. ministers recently agreed on a plan that shifts the responsibility for bank losses from governments to bank investors, creditors and uninsured depositors. What might this mean if it happened in America as well?
