Latest

On 22 May 2013 I wrote an analysis titled “Staying Sober.” It recounted two news stories that drew many hopeful comments from progressives. One was about the New York-based …

If you want to see how grossly money can distort democracy, just go to the state of Virginia, where there are no limits on how big a check can …

Rachel Maddow tells the history of the “Gephardt rule” that made raising the debt ceiling automatic with the budget to avoiding damaging default threats.

Michael Ratner: The U.S violates international law with kidnappings and armed attacks in sovereign countries.

Of course the media needs to start talking honestly about climate change. But there's more to the issue than just gloom and doom.

We need expanded and improved Medicare-for-All. And we need to vote any politician who won't advance us toward that goal out of office.

Can the world's biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric, the answer appears to be “yes.”

Republicans still have one power: the power to destroy. And they will use that power until we take it away from them.

The anti-cuts group recently mobilized a nationwide action called “Roadblocks for Justice” that focused specifically on cuts to legal aid.

A new Supreme Court campaign finance case could unleash unprecedented political corruption.