In a Minnesota courtroom, the Valve Turners are using the “necessity defense” in their shutdown of the tar-sands pipeline.

We could not have imagined the reality that was coming. Forget escalating: In a few months, even the little our crew had done before falling apart — the cold emails and messages to weapons workers; th...

Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.

I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.

West Virginians need buses to get to work, medical appointments and grocery stores. Lawmakers advanced no new transit funding, even as routes get cut.

Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

The future of e-commerce at Amazon rests on the increasingly complex logistics of same-day delivery—and the labor costs these entail.

The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

View Asad Haider's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

this is probably TMI

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.