Donald Trump is now claiming that if he doesn't win, the thing must be rigged. It's concerning that his supporters may believe that, but also concerning that others might imagine that the fact that Trump mentions the idea of voting improprieties must m...

The standoff over the Dakota Access pipeline is not a "harbinger" of the fight to make "Keep It in the Ground" more than a slogan; harbingers are about the future, and climate disruption and the people on its frontlines are stories of today.

From vanishing ice to animal die-offs to increasing wildfires, scientists use words like "unprecedented" and "staggering" to describe the evident impacts of human-driven climate disruption. Elite media say they take it all very seriously….

We talk about the limits of how we talk about poverty with Alice O'Connor. She's a professor of history at the University of California/Santa Barbara and author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in 20th Century US History.

After more than a half century of bloody conflict that saw more than 200,000 mostly poor civilians killed, Colombia has a chance at a peace accord between the government and the FARC, the region's oldest insurgent movement.

You wouldn't know it from corporate press, but what may have been the largest prison labor strike in the country's history happened September 9. This country is supposedly taking a bipartisan "fresh look" at mass incarceration; so what does elite media...

Many Brazilians are calling the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff a coup, but the official US position is, what now? Plus: We talk about the importance of legal—and journalistic—defense of citizen journalists.

It's fitting that the Labor Day holiday remind us of the struggles as well as the advances of US workers, who face today some of the same problems as workers in 1894—including distant and disconnected owners, whose self-enriching,

For many people, what's happening right now in North Dakota is a crucial story of a frontline fight of indigenous people against extractive industry—and on behalf of humanity, really, and the planet.

We're told we're in a moment of reconsideration, perhaps, of the notion that depriving needy people of assistance would lead to their gainful employment and well-being. A true reconsideration of the 1990s welfare overhaul would require a so-far invisib...