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The hegemonic alliance of big business, the richest 5 percent of citizens, and the state is becoming more visible to the American public. More

Close to 40 percent of children in many areas of the West Bank struggle with PTSD, the author writes. Here, a child perches in a car destroyed by an August 2006 Israeli military incursion into the Askar Refugee Camp, during which two homes were bulldozed. Credit: Creative Commons/Michael.Loadenthal. More

Causa Justa :: Just Cause ( cjjc.org ) Anti-foreclosure activists demonstrate outside a Wells Fargo shareholders meeting in San Francisco. In the lead-up to the 2006 financial crisis, 59 percent of black borrowers received predatory mortgages versus 16 percent of white borrowers. More

Polis/Melissa Garcia Lamarca The Occupy movement struck a chord globally precisely because it transcended the sometimes polarizing effects of identity politics and articulated a class politics on behalf of the 99 percent, who are systematically disadvantaged by the class war waged by the ever More

Creative Commons/Sunset Parkerpix To truly protect democracy for the 99 percent, we would need to ban not just corporate campaign contributions, but also donations from the super-rich. More

Creative Commons/Michael Fleshman Occupy Wall Street protesters rally outside a Bank of America branch in March 2012. With its energizing invocation of the “99 percent,” Occupy renewed hopes for future mobilizations. More

Most residents of the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, like those pictured here, earn less than one dollar per day. Eliminating $1.25-a-day poverty could require just 0.2 percent of global income, Makwana writes. More

Creative Commons/Todd Benson U.S. voter turnout rarely surpasses 60 percent, even in presidential elections. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote promotions like this one, which features both Obama and Romney, remind us of the importance of asserting ourselves at the ballot box. More