The nation's swelling inmate population has turned imprisonment into a $50 billion-a-year industry....

Within the living memory of Americans are two deadly surprise attacks against the United States....

The global economy is changing the way we think about food, from the kinds of things we eat, to the way food is grown and harvested....

Why are so many mentally ill Americans behind bars....

To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended more than fifty years ago...

In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, the U.S. government has embraced new tools and new powers to track the movements of people within America's borders...

In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi for a peaceful assault on racism....

Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, the legacy of the war affects lives on both sides of the Pacific....

270 people died when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988....

Death is un-American, an affront to the American Dream, wrote historian Arnold Toynbee in 1969....

India has emerged as a leading hotspot in the worldwide battle over GM crops.

After the longest peace-time expansion in American history, one in five American children is growing up poor.

For many, globalization has meant rich countries getting richer at the expense of the poor. Today, it's not that simple.

After an historic, generation-long prison expansion, American prisons are now releasing more than 600,000 inmates each year.

To many people, global youth culture means rock and roll and other Western fashions.

Today, in the all-volunteer military, about half of all service people are married with children, so the burdens of fighting these wars are shared back home.