Politics

What happened in Washington over the past several days sounds strikingly familiar to the First Gilded Age.

Without resorting to Super PACs or taking advantage of a new loophole from the Supreme Court, couples or individuals could give roughly eight times more to their party in …

Syringe access is one of many strategies of the harm-reduction movement that is changing the way society deals with drugs from the bottom up.

A left-right coalition, supported by the president and public opinion, could successfully push Congress to end the Cuba embargo.

The holiday season is a common time for Presidents to use their power to grant clemency, but this does not appear likely in 2014 for the President who has …

News that the Obama administration is “changing its relationship with the people of Cuba” is due to the leftward shift in Latin America that has increasingly isolated the United …

Quite a few pundits have admonished the Democratic Party for running poor national and state campaigns during 2014, providing insights into potentially more effective campaigning in 2016.

On the Senate floor last week, outgoing Democratic Sen. Mark Udall called for a purge of top CIA officials implicated in the torture program and cover-up.

The Senate began investigating the CIA's detainee program nearly six years ago.

The House has passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries.