Immigrants detained at an ICE-contracted center in Georgia said they had invasive gynecology procedures that they later learned might have been unnecessary.

The Trump administration can decrease global warming by improving refrigerators and air-conditioners.

The federal government may ignore the environment, but we can’t afford to.

When seeing your mother means a nine-hour journey — and a trip to prison.

President Trump should follow the EPA’s lead and get the pesticide chlorpyrifos out of our food.

Public funds are supporting religious nonprofits that obstruct women’s access to health care

The outrageous shackling of pregnant inmates.

A bad credit score used to block your access to bank loans. Now it may keep you from getting a job, too.

Two years after the last general election, after a sweep of political reforms, Myanmar’s National League for Democracy is contesting all available constituencies.

An increasingly cozy alliance between companies that manufacture processed foods and companies that serve the meals is making students — a captive market — fat and sick while pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. At a time of fiscal austerity, these companies are seducing school administrators with promises to cut costs through […]

In Congo up to a thousand people die each day from conflict. How colonial-era militias turned into death squads, terrorizing citizens for the sake of rubber and ivory.