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Meet the corporations who are profiting off our prison system.

Special interests dominate Washington and undermine our democracy.

Its annual conference proved that ALEC is still cozy with the NRA—and still pushing the agenda of giant corporations and right-wing ideologues.

The landscape of Wall Street’s creative destruction.

In Richmond, California, home prices plummeted 58 percent since their peak. Now the city is trying out a new way to help homeowners refinance—and halt the slide into foreclosure.

The reform-minded senator talks tough, and she knows where the bodies are buried.

Google eats the world.

Taking inspiration from small strikes and actions over the past few years, OUR Walmart activists struck a note of dissent at the corporation’s annual party.

Area janitors are fighting back against instances of unpaid overtime wages, denial of breaks and retaliation against union organizers.

As the company moves to Internet-based telephone service, it’s looking to shed regulatory obligations that benefit low-income Americans.