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An interview with Seattle's new socialist councilmember, Kshama Sawant.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer first reported on the food drive, which has sparked outrage in the area.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would strip our constitutional rights, while offering no gains for the majority of Americans. It's a win for corporations

Growing income inequality will pose a major threat to social stability in countries around the globe, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum.

As unrest simmers in the Middle East and the United States edges toward detente with Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia are trying to ride out the storm together.

Seattle pauses surveillance plans; Journalists on the move; Google wins book-scanning decision; Supercomputer Watson for all; Writers persecuted for digital media use; Google bigger than print industries.

With an awareness of climate change growing and as intensifying floods, fires, droughts, and storms become an inescapable feature of daily life across the planet, more people are joining environmental groups and engaging in increasingly bold protest actions. Sooner or later, government leaders are likely to face multiple eruptions of mass public anger and may, in the end, be forced to make radical adjustments in energy policy or risk being swept aside.