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An effective government needs accurate information. But what if its own policy of media censorship makes that impossible? Li Datong explores a paradox of China's governance.

Corporate media colludes with democracy’s demise. Without a free and independent press, this 250-year-old experiment in self-government will not make it. As journalism goes, so goes democracy

Sheldon Rampton and I could see it coming soon after the Democrats took control of the Congress in 2007.

The first thing a visitor to Curitiba, Brazil sees upon arriving at the city’s bus terminal is a line of aged boxcars just across the street.

Is Pakistan's insurgency fueled by too little state, too much, or the wrong kind?

FORT LAUDERDALE, U.S., Jul 8 (IPS) - Fisheries catches in tropical island nations may be as much as 17 times higher than officially reported, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Ha-Joon Chang is an award-winning Cambridge economist whose new book, Bad Samaritans, explodes what its subtitle calls “the myth of free trade.” At a time when Democrats are bashing NAFTA and Republicans are championing a NAFTA-style free trade deal with Colombia.