Nearly a week after her party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), won the parliamentary elections, the mayor of Marrakech was named Morocco's prime minister on September 29.

In the following 10 charts, we outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajectories since the 1970s. For most of those years, wages for the majority of workers were essentially stagnant. Two periods, the late 1990s and the last decade, saw decent wage growth, which kept cumulative wage growth since 1979 well above zero. But those years were the exception, not the norm. More importantly, even with those two periods, wages for typical workers lagged far behind productivity growth—meaning there was the potential for wages to rise far faster than they did.

The rainforest of Lopé National Park in central Gabon is one of the last safe havens for the endangered forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). But in a new study in Science, researchers warn that eleph...

Amazon is huge and powerful, but Italian workers have shown it can be forced to negotiate. Could US workers do the same?

Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.

Surge of anti-militarism in Germany: School strike in 100 cities, arms-exports blockade of rail line to Hamburg port

Starting next year, Hungary will introduce a wealth tax on people with assets exceeding 67 million forints — a measure that was one of the election promises of the Tisza party, which won a decisive vi...

At least 15 nurses previously suspended by Central Maine Medical Center have now been fired, according to a hospital spokesperson. Five other nurses remain suspended for "violations of longstanding h...