A new equation showing that the world is ‘deep in a climate emergency’ was unveiled on 24 September by Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, one of the world’s leading authorities on climate change, who said that people still don’t want to see the truth about the state we’re in.

Legislation was introduced after the rapper said he subjects his daughter to a yearly hymen exam, sparking outrage on social media.

In responding to inequality, policy makers should recognize the difference between wealth, which includes land, and productive capital, which doesn't. By Peter R. Orszag

The Department of Justice report doesn't just call out discrimination in Ferguson. It offers recommendations to fix it.

An interview with Frank Drake, who conducted the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960 and came up with a famous equation that estimates the possible number of alien civilizations.

When a public function is privatized, the result is a muddled middle ground.

For more than a decade, the New Jersey attorney general’s office conducted a hard-fought legal battle to hold Exxon Mobil Corporation responsible for decades of environmental contamination in northern New Jersey. But...

Their lawsuit argues that the Constitution requires them to bust pot smokers.

By Charles Hugh Smith

"This is as exciting as the Public Service Commission gets."

The free-market fantasy stands discredited by events. The challenge now: redeeming effective and democratic government. By Robert Kuttner

Matt Bowden (sometimes known as Starboy, an "interdimensional traveler") helped create one of the most viral outbreaks of new drugs in history. He might also have the antidote.

Women’s shelters are one of the most provocative legacies of the Western presence in Afghanistan.

In an interview a few days before he resigned, he explained in unusually candid terms the administration’s thinking — and how the White House lost its illusions.

How did ICANN -- the overseer of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) - put itself in position to be the global law enforcer for copyright infringement claims?

The Karner blue butterfly is a tiny thing, with colorful wings that extend just an inch across and a life that rarely wanders more than 600 feet from where it began. Its caterpillars can only eat w...

In an interview with SPIEGEL, celebrated French economist Thomas Piketty speaks about Alexis Tsipras' election victory in Greece, Europe's inability to fix its financial woes and what EU leaders can learn from the United States.

The very same people who demand U.S. actions against the democratically elected government in Caracas are the ones who most aggressively mock Venezuelan leaders when they point out that the U.S. is working to undermine their government.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

Two news stories and an op-ed piece in the media in recent days provide a useful introduction to the theme of this week’s post here on The Archdruid Report. The first news story followed the official announcement that the official unemployment rate here in the United States dropped to 5.5% last month. This was immediately hailed by pundits and politicians as proof that the recession we weren’t in is over at last, and the happy days that never went away are finally here again...