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Social media companies say consumer's loss of privacy is just the cost of doing business. But what would happen if they actually had to bargain with users on equal footing?

Washington institutions esteemed for their independent scholarship don't disclose donations from corporations and foreign governments.

Yahoo isn't buying the blogging service for it's profitability. It's buying it for the advertising possibilities.

By 2023, what will we make of 2013?

CORE’s victory is a boost to social movement unionism—and a model for other unions around the country.

In the wake of Angelina Jolie’s well-intentioned exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.

In this banana republic, billionaires don't need to go to the Cayman Islands to park their savings.

One of the youngest and poorest senators, Martin Heinrich rose to the top as a supporter of labor and environmental issues.

As part of The Nation's mayoral candidate series, de Blasio gives his views on how to tackle economic inequality.

Someone somewhere must die for the pleasure someone somewhere else takes in a $4.95 bikini top.