Politics

And the happiest country in the world is ... Denmark!

The United States has been at war for well over a decade now, with US attacks and excursions in distant lands having become as commonplace as floods and forest …

The question of whether red state Republicans' poor constituents are eventually covered under the lawu2019s Medicaid expansion may ultimately come down to state budget realities.

The Right is still winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.

Dick Cheney's new book about his life-saving heart transplant has drawn much fawning coverage. But little attention has gone to the hypocrisy of the ex-vice president accepting expensive government-funded …

In many states around our nation, you don't need a background check to buy a gun, and more.

Charles and David Koch, worth a combined estimated $68 billion in net worth, are among the driving forces behind the corruption of our democracy.

All such shortsighted ideologies, be they of the Right or the Left, have proven unrealistic and so have failed. Unfortunately, they have wreaked havoc in the meantime.

Because they are mostly free to do what they want, mega-foundations threaten democratic governance and civil society.

In Australia, the fear is that the fires being battled by heroic public servants who got their funding cut were initially started by arsonists. In America, the arsonists are …