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Martin Shkreli played the same game many others are playing on Wall Street and in corporate suites. He was just more audacious about it.

2015's crop of nonfiction films provide a look at what ails us — and how we might find solutions to our problems.

What did the mainstream media ignore this year? Reporters, editors and bloggers highlight stories that didn't get nearly enough attention.

As once again politicians seek to unleash the dogs of war, a one-man play recalls the brief holiday truce that marked the first year of World War I.

How oil industry lobbyists played the long game — wearing down an overmatched federal bureaucracy to gain access to a fuel-rich corner of the Alaskan wilderness.

And people wonder why he doesn’t talk more about race relations.

The vast inequality they are creating is a death sentence for government by consent of the people. This is the fight of our lives and how it ends is up to us.

The tragicomic story of Wall Street outliers who bet on the 2008 financial collapse as thousands lost their livelihoods.

Political campaigns, as well as anonymous (and not so anonymous) millionaires and billionaires, are spending more and more on ads to influence the presidential election — and network heads are cheering them on.

The bipartisan budget compromise is a holiday giveaway to the wealthy.