The massive and growing gulf between rich and poor is one of the direst challenges facing the U.S. economy. Highlighting this gap, more than half of U.S. wage earners made less than $30,000 last ...

By Hope Yen and Micah Naziri According to The Associated Press, four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of...

A US company that has developed an "electronic backpack" that fits onto a cockroach allowing its movements to be controlled by a mobile phone app has defended itself against cruelty claims. The ...

An international coalition of disarmament and human rights groups has said that UN-sponsored talks in Geneva this week must seize the opportunity to ban the development of fully autonomous weapons ...

It will be months before we know the true damage brought about by super typhoon Haiyan. The largest death tolls now associated with the storm are only estimates. Aid workers from across the world ...

To continue the fight for online privacy, sign up at www.trackoff.us We are filmmaker Cullen Hoback (cullenhoback), Ben Wizner (benwizner) Director ...

Sixty percent of Americans say the Republican and Democratic parties do such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed, the high by two percentage points in ...

In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa

In my review of the 2013 GlobalBEM Conference I suggested that we are heading towards a new civilisation, instead of just developing a 'better' world or a 'better' society. The morning after the cl...

Chris Hedges has an important essay in Truthdig this week, Our Invisible Revolution. Essentially he describes a revolution of the mind in which people's consciousness are raised as they become aware