Politics

Corporate conservatives want special rules that let them privatize profits and socialize losses.

William Rivers Pitt: "It should be safe to treat people like Ted Cruz and Ted Yoho as walking absurdities. I want to laugh. I really do. Doing so, however, …

The FCC is expected to decide whether to allow cellphone use on planes. Is that a good thing?

Former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. South African President Jacob Zuma announced Mandela's death Thursday saying, "Our nation has …

The Obama administration's B-52 flights over the disputed Senkaku Islands last month highlight the importance of making the Asia-Pacific “pivot” a diplomatic - not military - exercise.

Given that neocons are agitating for new Congressional sanctions on Iran now in the hopes that this will sink recent diplomatic success, shouldn't Senator Elizabeth Warren be speaking out …

Yemenis might find themselves back on the street, repeating the original demands that echoed in the countryu2019s many impoverished cities, streets and at every corner.

The American Legislative Exchange Council has one heck of an agenda for 2014, and it all centers around one idea - profit over people, and more.

From England's double-dip recession to Portugal's spiking unemployment, there is now conclusive evidence of the complete failure of austerity.

Basically, Obamacare is not complicated because government social insurance programs have to be complicated: Neither Social Security nor Medicare is complex in structure.