Analysis: Heard about income inequality lately? Here’s one way the rich keep getting richer.
Everybody knows what a “Swiss bank account” is. Hollywood tells us they’re top-secret safety deposit boxes for the world’s elite — places where drug kingpins and bankers and politicians and heirs hide their fortunes from government investigations and taxation. They’re how the super rich do banking. Now, thanks to one whistleblower and a team of
Did you know that the US owes Kazakhstan $35.1 billion?
US President Barack Obama unveiled his proposed 2016 budget last week, and from its plans for
These are the countries with the most women in parliament.
The US Congress opened its 114th session on Tuesday, bringing in one of the most diverse groups of lawmakers in US history: Women make up 20 percent of its ranks, and approximately 17 percent are non-white. While it's
Four of the states in the US have a higher prison population per 100,000 than any nation abroad.
State incarceration numbers The incarceration rate in the US is the highest in the world. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, although the US is home to only 5 percent of the world's population, it boasts
Pakistan saw more than 800 attacks on schools between 2009 and 2012.
Pakistan is now in mourning, after a gruesome attack on a military-run Peshawar school on Tuesday in which members of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) killed at least 145 people, including 132 children. "My body was shivering. I saw death so close and I will never
These charts show just how bad gun violence is in the US, compared to developed peers.
The world's eyes have turned once more to Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury decided Tuesday not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer who shot dead Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in
This is the one chart that you need to show to your climate denying friends.
