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The minimum wage is 23 percent less than its peak inflation-adjusted value in 1968. This is despite productivity (how much output can be produced in an average hour of work in the economy) more than

Attorneys for Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning begin working on the appeals process after the military finds her guilty under the Espionage Act, a statute the Obama administration has invoked more ...

I'm not talking about a little tweak here and there. I'm talking about throwing a massive metaphorical hand grenade into the entire system and starting over from scratch. We should be ashamed of ...

Regardless of your feelings about legalizing marijuana, it's hard to deny that legal weed would be a bonanza for cash-strapped states, just as tobacco and alcohol already are. With Colorado and ...

The decades-long standoff between Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and federal officials trying to push his cows off public, protected land came to a head last week when Bundy's armed supporters ...

Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation recently published a short essay noting that the economic fruits of peer production in today's world tend to be captured by capitalists - whereas what we really

Save the world, work less. That dual proposition should have universal appeal in any sane society. And those two ideas are inextricably linked by the realities of global climate change because there

At Aereo, we believe that technology can play a vital role in making people's lives better. So, we set out to build a technology that was simple and useful, combining the well-known consumer antenna

While corporations continue to land grab, exploit and privatize the little we still hold in common - people around the globe have been rising up. Women are preventing dams from being built in India;