China's great achievement: it has nearly eliminated urban poverty.

Vast Areas of California Are Sinking as Groundwater Is Pumped in Drought.

People's wells are going dry as corporations' farms pump tremendous amounts of water.

The absurd charges against Chelsea Manning will provide an excuse to keep her in a more strict prison for years.

Chicago Protestors Go on Hunger Strike to Save Their Last Neighborhood School.

The plutocrats consider most Americans disposable, so why bother educating them? Public education, for them, is just a cash cow.

Protesters confronted thugs in St Louis because they shot another man dead.

If it is true that the deceased pointed a gun at the thugs, I can't fault them for shooting him first. However, you can't trust what thugs say about the people they kill. They have lied so many times; why should we suppose they are not lying now?