Burger King plans to buy Tim Hortons, a Canadian company, in order to dodge US taxes.

Call it irony or call it a nightmare, but the “crisis” of Central American children crossing the US-Mexican border is now fading from the news.

That they're policing a country with more guns than any other doesn't excuse brutal policing, but it helps explain cops' mindset.

The anti-fracking movement started with fears about contaminated drinking water, but recent scientific research shows that fracking also exacerbates climate change.

Watch this award-winning documentary about three teenaged boys growing up in a small town in Missouri that sheds light on rural, white poverty on PBS Video.

The unrest in Ferguson appears to be settling, but it prompted debates that continue.

Any time spent behind bars is harmful to individuals, families, and communities. In many cases, the use of jail makes society less safe.

A middle-class family who had a child in 2013 can expect to spend $304,408 over the course of raising her until age 18.

Over 1,200 of our Facebook fans wrote in with what they would like to see come out of this tragedy.

News coverage of Michael Brown's death in Missouri is proof once more of social media's power and the necessity of an Open Internet.