Erdogan crushed the annual May Day protest in Istanbul to prove the Turkish state is serious about repression of protest.

The TSA's PreCheck Program: a Whitelist or a Blacklist?

This year's US May Day events called for ending racism and thug violence as well as better working conditions.

Paul Krugman: the world has demostrated (yet again) that government spending cuts make a recession worse, but US and UK politicians still insist on more cuts.

Krugman theorizes that this is a front for knocking down the poor.

That helps business by making workers desperate to accept low wages and precarious conditions.

Republicans aim to eliminate NASA's climate research.

Like tobacco companies before them, the fossil fuel companies want to pretend that their products may not be dangerous. One way is to hamper efforts to observe the results.