The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is the nation's second largest civilian employer after WalMart. Although successfully self-funded throughout its long history, it is currently struggling to stay ...

Artist and activist Steve Lambert's traveling piece Capitalism Works For Me! is a large illuminated sign and a voting podium. You vote "yes" or "no" on whether capitalism works for you and the ...

CREDIT: Wikimedia Meeting with a group of unemployed workers, Pope Francis abandoned his prepared text on Sunday to make some of his strongest remarks against economic inequality. Later, he spoke to

The shift with Mexico's northern neighbor is especially stark. Americans now make up more than three-quarters of Mexico's roughly one million documented foreigners, up from around two-thirds in ...

This essay was written by Jason: 35 years old and a white male combat veteran of Afghanistan, Jason has been on food stamps since June. He thinks the reality of being on food stamps isn't shameful,...

Hurting our relations with Latin America. Another consequence of unchecked spying.

More than 5,250 gallons of crude oil have spilled into a river in Colorado, contaminating much of the same region that was ravaged days earlier by a monumental flood that left no fewer than eight ...

Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim. A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government's ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges ...

Solutions The situation, critical as it might be is not irreversable! We have all the knowledge and technology that we need to build a solid and sustainable base for civilisation and nature to ...

In a parting message to the National Security Agency, nameless activists claiming affiliation with the hacker group "Anonymous" threw down the gauntlet. "Your organization is a blight on humanity,"