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Ill-conceived weapons continue to suck taxpayer dollars - the majority of the discretionary portion of the federal budget, in fact.

Progressives in Obama's base are applauding the president's budget plans but warn that Washington's obsession with cutting spending could threaten the nation's economic recovery.

Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. In today's On the News segment: Obama is proposing $1.6 trillion in new revenue from …

In the short-term Ryanu2019s cuts will lower the deficit. But in the long-term, those fewer investments will inflict serious harm on our nation.

Spanish and Portuguese workers are coordinating their strike with work stoppages underway in Greece, Italy, France and Belgium.

Cutting programs that provide economic support to ordinary Americans to make room for more tax cuts for the wealthiest will rob America of a broad-based economic recovery.

A plan to end the federal health care law on the state level is underway, led by the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and Cato Institute, with help from American …

Whether a crisis or a slope, the economic future of America is once again in the hands of the very people who helped destroy it, and only the American …

Itu2019s our job to apply pressure where it will move us toward shared prosperity, ecological balance and deep democracy.

With discussions of the fiscal cliff looming over his head, the one thing President Obama will openly discuss is his plan to let the Bush tax cuts die out …