The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched ...
The crisis in the German and European automotive and supplier industries is assuming catastrophic proportions.
Another day in Paradise, where 3 million Floridians may soon go hungry. SNAP, what we used to call Food Stamps, is out of ...
A spokesperson for a DC-area food bank told the WSWS that over 36 percent of the area's residents, or 1.5 million, were food ...
Jeffries disputed claims that Democrats' shutdown strategy isn't working as they continue to push to extend the expanded ...
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From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents ...
Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.
Over 180,000 Maryland residents could face major increases in health care costs next year as the Saturday deadline to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies rapidly approaches.
Senators have left Washington as the government shutdown marks day 31 and amid a looming deadline for SNAP benefits.
Republican tax cuts and immigration crackdowns have deepened Social Security’s crisis. How to fix it without punishing working Americans.

Are We Losing

When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...