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An anonymous reader writes "Opening a fascinating set of ethical and legal issues, researchers at UW Seattle have demonstrated the first device to allow direct communication between two humans' ...

Just weeks after resigning from a key position in the White House the United States' lead copyright officer has joined an ant-piracy trade group that lobbies for influence in the government on ...

The fact that the United States has become increasingly unequal in terms of income, wages, wealth and opportunity has hit the mainstream and public demands for economic fairness have gone viral. As

The NSA scooped up around 56,000 domestic emails per year 'with no connection to terrorism,' reports the Associated Press. The NSA is declassifying three documents that reportedly show how they made

This is what data from a world in turmoil looks like. The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) tracks news reports and codes them for 58 fields, from where an incident took place t...

The number of people over 60 years old has doubled in the past 30 years and is expected to grow at the same pace by 2050. Increasing pension payments at a time of massive layoffs could result in an

Social Policy is the leading journal of labor and community organizing. For over 30 years, Social Policy has served as key site for intellectual exchange among progressive academics and activists ...

Officials in Texas this week began converting 83 miles of asphalt road to unpaved lanes of gravel. Years of heavy truck travel has ravaged entire routes in south and west Texas, and going back to ...

The project grew out of J.K. Gibson-Graham's feminist critique of political economy that focused upon the limiting effects of representing economies as dominantly capitalist. Central to the project

It is baffling to me that this is something that can actually happen and be legal.