Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Before he died on ...
More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...
Citing a pressing need for more housing, Dallas City Council approved a housing policy that reversed earlier measures aimed ...
The Trump administration's efforts to distract from systemic failures have taken the form of attacks on institutions ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long line forms for the weekly food distribution provided by the Alameda County Community Food Bank at Shiloh Mercy House in ...
Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...
The U.S. is the world’s wealthiest nation and yet, year after year, a significant share of the population lives in poverty. The experience of poverty touches every part of a person’s life. “Poverty is ...
If you’ve been trying to follow the debate over the new measure of poverty released by the Census Bureau this morning, you’re probably completely confused by now. So far in the last few days we’ve ...
New York is one of the wealthiest states in this country. And yet its child poverty rate — over 20% — is one of the highest in the country. As a pediatrician in Albany for the past 20 years, I have ...
This op-ed began with a question. In a recent exchange, an acquaintance mentioned Mayor Arthur J. Holland while reflecting on Trenton’s current challenges. That brief reference prompted me to step ...
There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations have duties under international law. Many argue that only states are bound by international law, and it is ...
Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...