Politics

William Rivers Pitt: Abandoning the concept of single-payer health care is the Original Sin of the Affordable Care Act.

There is no evidence that broad sectors of society, especially the urban poor who provide the most support to the government, have joined the protests initiated by middle and …

Jeffrey Sommers and John Quigley analyze the role of Russia and the United States in the Ukraine crisis.

The institutional and political inertia accorded the “Washington rules” of international geopolitics may be causing the West to severely misconstrue the depth of Russian interests in the Ukraine.

Growing numbers of countries have shown discomfort with the UN drug control treaty regime through soft defection.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never tires of inventing new hoops through which he insists Palestinians jump.

In the wake of Citizens United, there is plenty of discussion of how campaign finance law might be changed to limit political participation by corporations.

The current protests in Venezuela are reminiscent of another historical moment when street protests were used by right-wing politicians as part of an attempt to overthrow the elected government.

India's political parties have avoided substantive issues in favor of finger-pointing at the media.

That our current government has been willing to fight for more than seven years - maybe all the way to the Supreme Court - to weaken legal whistleblowing protections …