In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month. As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels. Even though the stock market has been setting record high after record high, the amount of anger and frustration...

Target Corp. said Friday that encrypted debit card PIN data was among the information accessed in a data breach during the peak holiday shopping period. The Minneapolis-based retailer said that it doesn’t believe PINs themselves were accessed in the breach and doesn’t think they can be unencrypted by whoever may have taken them. The PINs are...

Hunger in Britain has reached the level of a “public health emergency” and the Government may be covering up the extent to which austerity and welfare cuts are adding to the problem, leading experts have said.

Privacy may not be the only casualty of the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program. Major sectors of the US economy are reporting financial damage as the recent revelations shake consumer confidence and US trade partners distance themselves from companies that may have been compromised by the NSA or, worse, are secretly collaborating with the...

We’re still in the dark as to what specifically the NSA was authorized to collect under the heading of “metadata” in this program. The information we do have has come from Snowden’s document leaks, not from the DNI’s “magnanimous” compelled response to court orders. Considering so much of this info is already out in the...

On the same day that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told “NPR Morning Edition” host Steve Inskeep that the U.S. military had to get costs under control, a senior U.S. Navy official was formally charged on Wednesday with accepting luxury trips, $100,000 in cash, “hooker services,” and even Lady Gaga concert tickets from a foreign-based...