Op-Ed

The cost of American democracy is the most expensive in the world.

Americans don't know much about geography.

If the state puts political activists in handcuffs for shutting down bridges, it should do the same to governors and the minions who do their bidding.

Chris Crass's coming-of-age memoir for the modern activist, “Towards Collective Liberation,” provides a road map for personal and societal evolution.

While the Obama administration promises to investigate drone strikes, civilians in Yemen are dying and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is garnering new recruits.

"Any week that starts with a guy getting shot to death in Florida by a retired police captain for the crime of texting his daughter's babysitter during the previews …

If there is any negative image of what Democracy looks like, any way to define a thing by its opposite, it is the Trans Pacific Partnership.

These days, indeed, the city seems to belong to the highest bidders and the dogged homeless who, as if taking revenge, crowd the sidewalks in every neighborhood.

Thomas Patterson's new book avoids the most crippling affliction of mainstream journalism in the United States: “The Ideology Problem.”

Tom Engelhardt: When I check the latest news on Washington's global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a category that I call: What Could Possibly …