Politics

Pulling back the curtain on how intent the wealthiest Americans have been on establishing a propaganda tool to subvert democracy.

Can the Federal Reserve be remade into a transparent, democratic institution?

As many Americans were occupied putting the final touches on their taxes, Congress repealed the legislation that required our leaders to disclose information about their stock trades online.

We don't always have a clean shot at the 1 percent, but there is broad public consensus on this issue across many ideological and class lines.

Participatory budgeting (PB) transfers decision-making power from elected officials to everyday people.

There are new and even historic anti-poverty proposals in this budget. But the better they are, the more they fall into the hard to get category.

In a knee-jerk reaction to concerns that too many people may be required to disclose personal financial data, Congress quickly and quietly approved legislation over the past 24 hours …

Wikileaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. In a secret US cable to the …

Every Democrat running for re-election in 2014 will have the stinking dead albatross of their president's cut to Social Security hanging around their neck.

Michael Hudson: Obama's “bargain” on social security reform will push more retirees into poverty in exchange for a minor increase in high end income tax - a class that …