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As China looks set to overtake the US as the world's largest economy, a multipolar world can only be good for democracy.

The author reviews two books: One discusses the state of journalism today; the other examines how the dominant culture brutalizes the poor and lionizes the powerful.

Worker-owned cooperatives build economic democracy, but how do we build more worker-owned cooperatives? Here are three valuable allies to help us get there.

For the past two decades, the Knights of Columbus' fundraising and activism have gone to bolster anti-abortion and anti-marriage equality initiatives.

A faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a new movement for social justice.

Reviews of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism By Dean Starkman and The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap By Matt Taibbi.

Why does a millionaire mayor and a billionaire hedge fund CEO team up to attack public pensions? Because that's where the money is.

If the Supreme Court upholds a police officer's right to search your smartphone without a warrant, the door is opened to the use of arrests on petty offenses to justify fishing expeditions of those computers we carry in our pockets.

The leaders of AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences have signed a landmark agreement to advance scientific cooperation by Cuban and U.S. scientists, in key areas of mutual interest to both countries.

A fun problem to work on before you take your child to see Spidey 2: Clearly it looks cool when Spider-Man swings around on his webs. However, does this really save him time?