Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why common myths about the minimum wage fall short, and why raising it will help ordinary working people without contributing to inflation.

The story of a small, unassuming nation in Southeast Asia that received two million tons of bombs from American forces – without war having ever been declared. And how it became a model for American interventions in the future.

More and more people, in America and around the world, are reporting that they're depressed, lonely, or friendless. Why are so many people, especially young people, reporting problems with their mental health?

A big part of gas price increases is a result of decisions by oil and gas investors, and a more rational way of running the oil and gas industry could both support ordinary consumers and move toward a post-oil future.

During the pandemic, people were afraid of pausing the economy: the assumption was that a lockdown would have ended with a transfer of wealth to the top. But this is only because the economy was never designed for our collective well-being.

Microcell transmitters have no relationship with COVID-19, but their implementation marks an intensification of a dangerous economic logic.

France's African empire seemingly ended in the 1960s, but its influence is still alive.

The untold story of Ireland’s worst tragedy.

The story of Pakistan's 1971 genocide in Bangladesh, and how America's leaders, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, helped sponsor a genocide.

This is the story of how the U.S. government made an innocent man out to be a leader of al-Qaeda – how it subjected him to "enhanced interrogation," lied about him, and kept him locked up to this very day.

Everyone knows electric cars are better for the environment than gas-powered ones. But automobile dependence might be the most urgent problem, whether it's electric or not.

The Korean War has divided one people into two different identities. According to historians such as Bruce Cumings, the reason why this division became permanent ultimately lies in the interests of the United States of America.