Politics

Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually good at seeing through the rhetoric. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warrenu2019s support of postal financial services, he has done a serious …

This week, the daughter of Chile's Salvador Allende, the socialist president who was assassinated in a 1973 US-backed coup, took office as Senate President alongside Michelle Bachelet, marking a …

In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.

NSA Whistelblower William Binney says Sen. Feinstein is hypocritical for supporting spying under the Obama administration but only speaking out after her committee is spied on.

Police are now crunching crime statistics to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, a method seen by some as an expansion of a militarization …

Foreign policy commentator and author William Blum discusses his latest book, “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy, The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else,” the real threat to US …

It began with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), then at week's end the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was in Washington rallying their crowd to bash the …

The advertisement ran just less than a month before the race for school board in Douglas County, Colo. “Liberals are fighting school choice in Douglas County,” the announcer intoned. …

Newly uncovered evidence suggests that Willingham, who maintained his innocence until his death, was in fact an innocent man.

President Obama's 2015 budget proposes a number of tax increases that will mainly affect the rich.