The Democratic and Republican leadership in Congress have a tough enough time as it is trying to find common ground with one another, but a new poll reveals that a majority of Americans can't say ...

Over a quarter of the European population could face poverty by 2025. But concerned citizens are demanding research into Unconditional Basic Income: our chance to completely eradicate poverty. We ...

Reuters/Lucy Nicholson A free dental clinic held annually in Connecticut is expected to attract thousands of people who lack the proper health insurance coverage for everything from routine checkups

Dubbed "B31," the iceberg could pose some significant problems for ships if it continues to melt or break apart in the Southern Ocean. At 255 square miles (660 sq. km) and 500 meters thick, B31 is ...

Streetbank puts you in touch with your community, bringing neighbourboods closer and making the world a bit nicer. See members living within one mile, make requests on the community noticeboard ...

There are many reasons why French academic Thomas Piketty's 685-page tome, "Capital in the 21st Century," has vaulted to the top of the Amazon.com best seller list and is being discussed with equal

On the morning of January 30th, Fight for the Future joined 85 other organizations who delivered over 1 MILLION signatures demanding immediate action to restore net neutrality to the FCC offices in

When you present the evidence to six people who know nothing about fracking, they find fracking guilty. I wrote a diary on Daily Kos when Lisa Parr's doctor found drilling chemicals in her blood and

Today's Supreme Court ruling about the future of Aereo is not about TV or cable or how much it should cost to watch Sunday Night Football. It isn't about cable costing $8 or $80 or $800. It is ...