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In less than two years, Athens has changed from a reasonably prosperous capital to a broken city.

The Pentagon’s Afghan basing plans for prisons, drones and black ops.

With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

Timothy Pachirat’s gut-wrenching account of slaughterhouse work.

Zuccotti Park was not my first occupation. But it showed me the need to live up to our values.

For all its flaws, the food stamp program helps one in seven Americans put food on the table.

The insurance program is facing its toughest challenges just as the health reform law is poised to expand eligibility for millions of Americans.

One month after the NYPD cleared Zuccotti Park, the lack of a physical space to occupy is creating divisions within the movement.

Civil disobedience says, in effect, that the law is not sacred when a better world is at stake.

An obscure dissatisfaction, a sense that no formal solution works for long, is shared by the art of Ida Ekblad and Edvard Munch.