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In Tight Midterms Facing Low Turnout, Colorado’s Senate Race Could Decide Who Controls Congress
Republican candidate Cory Gardner and Democratic incumbent Mark Udall are neck and neck in the polls.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The US Is Number One in Violence, and More
In today's On the News segment: Violence is one of the only reasons the US finds itself at the top of any charts, and more.
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Bashing Obama to Make Way for Hillary
I, for one, am certainly not “ready for Hillary.”
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When the Ayatollah Said No to Nukes
In an exclusive interview, a top Iranian official says that Khomeini personally stopped him from building Iran's WMD program.
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My One Minute of Campaign Finance Fame
The film “Pay 2 Play” is a clever look at the issue of money in politics.
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Unfriending ALEC
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook are breaking up with corporate polluters.
The Shell Game of Contingent Employment
As corporations continue to look for ways to skirt government regulations and increase their profit margins, many will continue to hire intermediaries or misclassify workers as a way of …
Paying the Price of Tar Sands Expansion
A little-known tax break allows companies to write-off half of the cost of new equipment for refining tar sands and shale oil.
Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Andrew Jackson Were Proponents of Native American Genocide
Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaks about her book on the true history of how the United States became a nation and Eurocentric racism that justified it.
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It’s Time to Stop Letting Sociopaths in Power Tell Us What Makes Us Happy
If we are to save ourselves, we must escape the twin clutches of both corporations and nation-states, providing leadership of the irresponsible.