As the Puerto Rican economic recession approached its 10-year mark, the island’s government was preparing to unveil a new budget plan for the 2016 fiscal year. Recognizing the failure of spending cuts ...

Many young South Koreans are angry. Disillusioned by unfulfilled political promises, skyrocketing housing prices, and alarming wage stagnation, young people demand political change. This time, ...

When it comes to flood myths, China’s is not as well known as Noah’s Ark, but just as influential. Legend says that four millennia ago, the Yellow and Yangtze rivers frequently flooded, with ...

Charles W. Mills is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Born in the U.K. and raised in Jamaica, he is a leading thinker in social and political ...

Not all experts agree with this characterization of the fossil fuel industry, though. Robert Stavins, a professor of energy and economic development at the Harvard Kennedy School, told the HPR that he ...

I’m from Maine, and I return every time I can. I’m not from the coast, but my cousins are, and boiled lobster is the standard at any summer gathering. I remember my lobsterman cousin pulling up in his ...

On the campaign trail for the 2016 Presidential Election, then-candidate Donald J. Trump spared no words in expressing his opinion on Islam. In an effort to rationalize his promise to block the entry ...

Should the “ultimate guardian of the interests of capitalists and bankers doing international business” hold the fate of ordinary citizens in its hands? Since 1944, the answer, apparently, has been ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a historical bill to advance statehood for Washington, D.C., acknowledging that the capital’s 700,000 residents lack proper representation ...

As a horde of passionate supporters gathered outside the presidential palace in Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chanted, “bye-bye Kemal” in the wake of his victory in the Turkish runoff ...

The Black Panther Party has been deeply mischaracterized over the years. Founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale on Oct. 15, 1966, the group of Black revolutionaries who carried guns and wore ...

Foreign aid is an often-cited example of public misperception of U.S. government operations. A 2015 Kaiser Family Foundation survey asked Americans what percentage of the U.S. budget they thought went ...