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 student debt relief to raising taxes on banks, it's already generating buzz. Obama's $4-trillion budget expands on the goals laid out in his latest State of the Union address. It aims to widen the middle class, help "hard-working" citizens get ahead,
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 certainly a step forward, the US still has a long way to go toward a totally representative Congress: As the Washington Post
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 25 percent of the world's prisoners. About one in 100 American adults are behind bars, the Economist reports. If those
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 forget the black boots approaching me — I felt as though it was death that was
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 August. The decision sparked a night of violent unrest in Ferguson, with photos emerging of the St. Louis suburb on fire, and its
This is the one chart that you need to show to your climate denying friends.
If you've been waiting for the right moment to freak out about the environment, that time is probably now. The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2013, the greatest increase since 1984, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). That means that the last time the world saw such a high jump in CO2