Police ordered the public to disperse from downtown Los Angeles after further unrest, with security forces firing tear gas at ...

India's economy grew by 6.5 percent in the fiscal year that ended in March, positioning among the world's top performers.

When American politicians propose new policies, the first question they often receive is how they intend to pay for it. According to Stephanie Kelton, a professor of public policy and economics at ...

In the United States, incumbents – politicians who once wore out the pavements of Washington, DC – often get re-elected. Research has documented that in some years well over 90 percent of incumbents ...

It’s no secret that private, for-profit prison corporations have accumulated substantial wealth from the U.S. criminal justice system. But another, relatively unknown, aspect of their reach is their ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) – a huge hydro dam on the Nile River that is set to become Africa’s largest – is a national project fully financed by the Ethiopian people and government.

Thirty years ago, on June 4, 1989, there were free elections in Poland – the first multiparty elections since WWII. It was the beginning of a cascade of events that culminated in the collapse of all ...

With more than 25 million people forcibly displaced from their countries by the end of 2018, the world currently faces an unprecedented refugee crisis. Among the countries with the highest rates of ...

Doda, Jammu and Kashmir — As the Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir continues to be under the worst lockdown in recent memory, the federal government dropped a bombshell in the Indian parliament by ...

Earlier this month, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab admitted that the state had lost the nation’s confidence and is unable to protect its people. More recently, the government defaulted on its ...

Ortega, an aging guerrilla warrior and former president-turned-wealthy oligarch, seemed to be on the ropes. Protesters erected barricades across the country, paralyzing the national economy. After the ...

One thing that nearly all observers of the American economy (and other developed countries around the world) can agree on is that income inequality has increased considerably in recent decades. The ...