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While political leaders are intent on raiding Medicare to pay for tax cuts, the real solution to soaring health costs is more and better Medicare, not less.

Thereu2019s no doubt about it; the denial of wealth is what keeps us in check, in debt.

Last month, the Supreme Court said it will consider the constitutionality of a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

David Vine decided to make sense of what garrisoning the planet means to our pocketbooks.

The Progressive Caucus has laid down these six principles for tax reform.

Strike fever isn't just for Walmart workers anymore.

Residents are losing sleep - and more - in the shadow of the fracking rigs.

States loosen marijuana laws but the federal government's continued prohibition means a boom in marijuana smuggling, drug-war violence and mass criminalization. Is it time to change direction?

Both Republican and Democratic plans for the economy leave the system that produced this crisis and will produce more crises unchanged. There IS an alternative, argues economist Rick Wolff.

Education is a recession-proof industry that will always be in high demand, but the rush to privatize it could destroy public schools and take the middle class down with …