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The Nation's Greg Kaufmann takes a look at US poverty levels and the number of children currently living below the poverty line.

Michael Winship says America's celebration of profit runs roughshod over our interest in fairness and justice.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann says Senate Democrats' commitment to economically-vulnerable Americans "is about as thin as Republican cut proposals are deep."

Andrew Bacevich says wars need names, and in the absence of one now, proposes names that might actually explain what’s going on.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann reports on 500 activists who traveled to Washington, D.C. to “Bring Justice to Justice” in the fight for home ownership.

Only weeks after his release from prison, activist Tim DeChristopher talks about the necessity of civil disobedience in the fight for environmental justice.

Columnist Gretchen Morgenson says that, five years after our economic near-collapse, banks are still too big to fail, to manage, and to trust.

See 10 companies that paid little or no taxes for the past five years, and ten that increased their offshore holdings in 2012.

A surprise bipartisan bill would give the Environmental Protection Agency new powers to test chemical safety.

See a slideshow of nominees President Obama's been having trouble getting through the Senate, and where they currently stand.