Elections

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, April 27, 2012. (Photo: Ty William Wright / The New …

Washington - It is a seemingly immutable law of modern Republican rhetoric that the word"regulation" can never appear unadorned by the essential adjective:"job-killing." As in nominee-in-waitingMitt Romney, after winning …

Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Holden. (Photo: National Milk Producers Federation) In one of the most watched primary elections tonight, incumbent Democratic Congressman Tim Holden (D-PA) lost to attorney Matt Cartwright. …

(Image: Helen Cox) America is once again in crisis! All three branches of its government and its major political parties are controlled by a plutocracy composed of large corporations …

Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort.The offices of the French Socialist Party in the Cergy suburb of Paris, Feb. 24, 2012. …

Before we move on from the dust-up over Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney, let's be clear on what's really going on here. Neither Ann Romney nor stay-at-home moms …

Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House)President Obama’s re-election campaign is straining to raise the huge …

Washington, D.C. - Haiti's elections, which were fraught with widespread irregularities and the arbitrary exclusion of political parties, should be rejected by the international community, Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of …

The RNC's vote suppression targeted blacks, Hispanics, the poor of all shades and Florida's Jewish voters.

Efforts to place Obama outside of history are only possible in a society that treats history like yesterday's garbage.