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Documents presented to the Fund's board last Friday will reveal that the Washington-based organisation underestimated the damage austerity would cause to the eurozone country, which has required two bailouts in the past three years.

For all the excitement about left-leaning demographics, a real majority party needs better numbers among blue-collar whites.

Nick Coles previews the scholarly and creative works that were recognized in this year's Working-Class Studies Association awards.

We all want to believe a recovery is here, but indicators are that it's not. We're getting swindled again by banks and politicians.

'If you thought you had a fight a month ago, you ain't seen nothing yet,' say protest leaders as 151 arrested

The Tulsa Race Riot stands as one of the most violent episodes of dispossession in U.S. history.

Bulent Arinc apologises to original environmental protesters as two men die in continuing demonstrations.

Internet Blocking in Turkey, Jordan and the U.K.; Before the Elections in Iran, the US Says It's OK to Sell Them Cellphones; Internet Revolution in Cuba

More than any of the other civil rights widows, Myrlie Evers showed America her rage. She let the nation see her unfiltered emotion when two all-white juries refused to convict Medgar’s killer, during a time when black anger was not an acceptable display of emotion. She wrote a book and began it with this line: “Somewhere in Mississippi lives the man who murdered my husband.”

A human rights approach could lead the way to resolving the problems of partition and the problems of a two state solution. International human rights treaties offer states alternatives to partition. Instead, human rights conventions offer types of integration that protect the existence and identity of national linguistic, ethnic, and religious groups.