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At least 30 bills have been introduced in the Missouri statehouse in recent years that are nearly identical to legislation originally written by a conservative organization whose membership includes …

Washington - It's all over but the shouting, or, in this case, the polite applause: Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. But which Mitt Romney? …

Washington - The “Buffett Rule’’ — the Democratic-authored effort to impose a minimum tax on millionaires — is probably dead for awhile, fatally wounded by a largely partisan Senate …

Over the past several years, few annual occasions have been more symbolic of the direction of political discussion in our country than Tax Day. This year, the IRS due …

(Photo: MikeWebkist) Do you support Truthout's reporting and analysis? Click here to help fund it. For several years, Luis Avila produced an acclaimed youth radio show in the Phoenix, …

Scientific American lauds author Chris Mooney “as one if the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics.” Having interviewed Mooney …

Organized by Ralph Nader and the Center for Study of Responsive Law, more than 200 activists and scholars convened in Washington, DC, on April 2 for an all-day conference …

Washington is lost in a snarl of confusion, cowardice and wrongheaded ideological assumptions that threaten to keep the economy in a ditch for a long time. That prospect is …

An oil rig reflected in a fracking pond on the Giddings Estate, a 10,000-acre field in near Midland, Texas, owned by Pioneer Natural Resources, February 15, 2012. (Photo: Jim …

Sheld­on G. Adels­on and his wife, Miria­m, have donat­ed milli­ons to a super PAC that is suppo­rting Newt Gingr­ich's presi­denti­al campa­ign. (Photo: Patri­ck T. Fallo­n for The New York …