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Grammy Award winner Muddy Waters was born in a ramshackle cabin not much bigger than a studio apartment in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Growing up in early 20th century Issaquena …

(Photo: Luigi Anzivino / Flickr) Forty years after President Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs, members of Congress introduced a bill on Thursday that would end …

Professor Juan Cole. (Photo: Patrick Giblin / Flickr) The Senate Intelligence Committee is now reviewing whether the CIA and White House may have tried to smear Juan …

Yesterday, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) released a report chronicling the political strategies of private prison companies “working to make money through harsh policies and longer sentences.” The report's …

A business enterprise has grown in the shadow of the dragon that—in virtually every way imaginable—is the antithesis of a dragon.

“We the People” now explicitly means “We the Citizens, Corporations, and Churches” with a few of the richest humans who run them thrown in.

Our problem is not an immigration issue, it’s an economic one.

“When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!”

For far too long, we have been hooked on oil, and we continue to pay a terrible price for it economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally.

The flood of corporate money and influence in our government makes for a decidedly uneven playing field for businesses as well as taints and corrupts our government.