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Who was really responsible for the Mexican debt crisis? Did Mexico start it?

Union leaders say that contract talks have changed little since Emanuel’s departure, with the Lightfoot administration continuing a “unilateral” approach.

True believers like Ailes or for that matter Steve Bannon or Tucker Carlson may be cynical and fundamentally financially motivated yet they are a foundational part of an emerging right wing international.

Sludge and Data for Progress analyzed the Democratic presidential candidates' donors by income, race, gender, age, and ideology.

The El Paso shooter wasn’t a “lone wolf.” His act of white supremacist terror is part of a century of racial violence targeting fronterizo communities.

New data reveal that counties with a history of voter discrimination have continued purging people from the rolls at elevated rates.

Revoking Article 370 is the latest step in the BJP's plan to transform India into an unapologetically Hindu-only nation in which no other identity is welcomed. With that decree, India's president signed the death warrant of India's democracy.

Price George's County, Maryland residents complain that instead of promised stores and library, a backdoor deal may bring an Amazon warehouse to their neighborhood.

While the global climate crisis demands we rise above narrow self-interest and short-termism, governments now represent the meanest and dirtiest of special interests. In the UK, the US, Brazil, Australia and many other nations, the pollutocrats rule.

The Brexit promoted by Tory hardliners has long been about pulling Britain under the shadow of US capital. US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.