To the booming for-profit college industry, low-income students are a treasure trove of federal subsidies, grants, and high-interest loans — all for degrees that fizzle in the job market.
Some human rights groups now call solitary confinement “torture.” Yet the State of California throws thousands of men into solitary for little more than the books they read and the company they keep.
What happens when outside agitators work with state politicians to pass the nation’s most draconian anti-immigrant law yet? The Cotton State learned the hard way.
Can rich nations pay a corruption-riddled government to protect its rainforests? A close look at a new UN program to reduce deforestation around the globe.
The policies of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, infamous for his zeal against undocumented immigrants, may soon go statewide. The story of one immigrant, who died soon after being deported to Mexico, may serve as a warning sign of the brutality ahead.
Enticed by unscrupulous recruiters, saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, and working in exploitive, often abusive conditions, guest workers in the United States are legal — but vulnerable to a modern form of indentured servitude.
An inside look at Burma’s brutal war on its Karen minority through the eyes of the exile activists who risk their lives to document its worst atrocities.
A close look behind the cool image of Fiji Water, a celebrated symbol of purity that depends for its profits on environmental plunder and a military dictatorship. Plus a special animated video.
As Freedom’s Watch mounts a campaign to defend the war on Iraq, some conservatives are grumbling about the group – and its wealthy backer, Sheldon Adelson.
Internal documents show OSHA detected dangerous levels of formaldehyde in trailers used to house Katrina evacuees as early as 2005 but FEMA distributed them anyway.