The Koch brothers are now attacking a plan to rescue Detroit from bankruptcy while preserving workers' pensions.

The NSA records nearly all phone calls in Afghanistan.

Maybe that's acceptable during a civil war, which Afghanistan is experiencing. But if the US claims to be supporting that country's government, it should ask that government's permission.

Fossil fuel companies are following the path of the tobacco companies in marketing heavily to poor countries.

A new "citizen politics" party in Spain has won several seats in the European Parliament.

Iran is imprisoning people for political statements on Facebook.