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All of the major internet organisations have pledged, at a summit in Uruguay, to free themselves of the influence of the US government

By Agence France-PresseFriday, October 11, 2013 23:03 EDT Tax the rich and better target the multinationals: The IMF has set off shockwaves this week in Washington by suggesting countries fight ...

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In 2010, residents pushed Wal-Mart to improve the design and layout of its planned North Baltimore store. Now they say the chain has reverted back to a suburban-style big box. Comparing it to a ...

9 months before anyone had ever heard the words "Steubenville" and "rape" in the same sentence, a 14 year old girl named Daisy Coleman was brutally raped, filmed, and driven back to her house in Ma...

Joe the Plumber (whose real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher) has been busy since the 2008 presidential election brought him to the national spotlight with a contentious meeting with then-candida...

A new series from YES! Magazine on how we can build local economies that are strong enough to include everyone. Stay tuned for ongoing coverage from our 2013 Local Economies Reporting Fellow, Laura

Chokwe Lumumba was an unlikely candidate for high office in Mississippi. But last June, the former Black Nationalist and one-time attorney to Tupac Shakur was elected Mayor of Jackson. He's now in ...

Americans have never been more eager for a third party in American politics as the government shutdown continues to generate record levels of frustration, according to a new poll.Sixty percent ...

Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours. While these societies have had far fewer consumer goods and less of what modernity calls "efficiency," they also have had