Politics

The American Jobs Act would net 1.9 million new jobs and slice the unemployment rate by a percentage point.

Corporate interests that fought the president's re-election are lobbying for him to use the speech to call on Congress to enact Fast Track authority for the TPP.

On issues from domestic inequality to foreign policy, President Obama delivered the fifth State of the Union with a vow to take action on his own should Congress stonewall …

Amy Traub: Obama's $10.10 minimum wage hike is a clear victory for hundreds of thousands of workers of new or renewed contracts but will still exclude a large group …

David Cay Johnston: $10.10 minimum wage for federal contractors is a restoration not rise in wages since minimum wage is substantially lower now than in 1960s.

The real challenge for peacemakers is to reflect on the vision projected by President Obama in his Cairo and Jerusalem speeches — to recognize the equal humanity and rights …

Washington's pivot to Asia reminds us that the leading brains in the Pacific might as well still be in the pre-World War I era.

By almost every measure, Americans are better off living in a Blue state, and more.

It was profoundly unsettling to watch those that represent the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s opponents and assassins take up his mantle on Monday and exploit the …

President Barack Obama will give his annual State of the Union address to the American people next week. But what is the state of our union?