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Clark discusses the work of UNDP, the launch of the 2013 Human Development Report in Mexico, the Millennium Development Goals and the many challenges that the UN will face in the future.

Just doing what’s popular would make us healthier, wealthier, wiser and less indebted.

Rinku Sen on the Associated Press's decision to "drop the 'i' word," Robert Dreyfuss on Hagel's bad budget rhetoric, and the editors on a prize for Nation illustrator Steven Brodner.

Obama's budget proposal is both bad politics and bad economics—our real crisis is that most Americans lack the means for a secure retirement.

A GAO examination of the Independent Foreclosure Review reveals massive levels of incompetence and negligence.

In every way, her agenda opposed the interests of ordinary working people. How did she get so many of them to vote against their own economic interests again and again?

If the majority of American workers were producing more without earning more, who was going to buy all the stuff?

With a well-marked pathway from preschool through high school, the dense New Jersey city is a model educator for newcomers—and America at large.

The charges form the crux of a federal discrimination lawsuit that goes to trial this month.

For every San Francisco earthquake and Superstorm Sandy, some die—and others profit.