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by Alex Park and Tasneem Raja This post originally appeared in Mother Jones. Voters across America are heading to the polls today for state and local elections, and just like in federal elections ...

After more than 200 advocates of the " Robin Hood tax" marched up Constitution Ave. here today to the Longworth House Office Building, lawmakers heard the vice president of the European Parliament ...

While money often rules, it does not always rule. In Colorado, a long-fought effort to create a municipal energy utility that would green the energy supply of Boulder won big. This has been a 12 ...

Just the mere thought of money can turn a person selfish, so that he helps others less often and prefers to play alone, a new study shows. In a series of nine experiments, researchers found that ...

"The world has changed, the syllabus hasn't" is the rallying cry of the University of Manchester Post-Crash Economics society. Despite barely being around for a year they have already received ...

Baltimore Residents Object to "Bait-and-Switch" Design for Walmart Store "It doesn't seem like the same project they got approval for," says Jim Triplett of Baltimore's Remington neighborhood ...

Sometimes it feels like elections are an exercise in futility. We live in a mirage democracy in which major party candidates are vetted by the corporate machine before they get on the ballot and th...

A new a study from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields from 66 studies and over 300 trials. Researchers found ...

The New Jersey teacher in the photo below had just asked Chris Christie the following question: "Why do you continue to spread the myth that our schools and teachers are failing?" His reply? "You p...