5 million Americans have given up on finding a job since the crisis 6 years ago.

Those who still have jobs are worse off: the median wage has declined 4%.

Texans fear an old oil pipeline will leak again and pollute their reservoir.

As the US argues in court for tracking everyone's phone calls, it seems to have quietly retracted the claim that this is "indispensable" for finding terrorists.

This is significant because that claim was the reason the FISA court approved this tracking.

How GOP Governors Are Preventing Millions Of Low-Income Diabetic Americans From Getting Medical Care.

The Republicans in Georgia, by refusing to extend Medicaid to poor people, are also cutting off funding for hospitals that do treat the poor.

The poorest South Africans organize for housing rights, against the corruption of the state, and despite repression that goes as far as murder.