The Italian banking crisis that could take down the eurozone has been called “a bigger risk than Brexit.” Handwringing officials say there is “no magic bullet,” but a British professor, Richard Werner, says it’s just being ignored.

The president-elect’s creative solutions for staying in the financial loop while seeming to keep his distance once again are drawing fire from his critics.

Data from the Government Accountability Office showed that people over the age of 50 are the fastest-growing group with student debt, outpacing younger generations.

A document from U.S. Special Operations Command Africa shows that military support to partner nations in Africa is prioritized to suit American, not African, needs and policy goals.

Almost half of plant and animal species have disappeared from particular areas due to climate change, with the tropics suffering the most pronounced loss.

We don’t need a Trump-nominated Supreme Court justice. And there is no reason to have one.

The future for legal pot and drug reform is very much in doubt.

The shooting of Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, will slow but not interrupt the process of Russo-Turkish rapprochement, after a period last winter and spring when the two countries were boycotting each other.

It’s time for Truthdig’s annual—and only partially tongue-in-cheek—review of the highlights, lowlights, pratfalls and pitfalls of the Supreme Court over the past 12 months.

Michael Manley of Jamaica and others pushed decades ago for progressive change to end the systems of subjugation in their countries. But that will remain tough to achieve until it is accomplished in the U.S.