Politics

Right-wing pundits and politicians are latching onto a few minor discrepancies in Wendy Davis' life story to smear the state senator with traditionally sexist tropes.

Rand Paul has a very good shot at becoming the Republican nominee for president in 2016. So why is that such a good thing for Democrats and our nation? …

44 years after the NPT went into force, the United States and other nuclear powers continue to pursue their nuclear weapons buildups, with no end in sight.

For the first time in his incumbency, Chris Christie is on the defensive. Not an enviable position for a controlling bully.

Four years after the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United, new research shows that outside spending has had a big impact on judicial races.

The complaint stemmed from the group's failure to register as a political committee and disclose its donors despite huge expenditures on political advertising in the 2010 election cycle.

There is no question that solutions to the problems of Israel and Palestine are complex. The problems, however, are clear and should not be difficult to diagnose.

Video of a press conference announcing an International Solidarity Hunger Strike for Syria.

The President acknowledged the privacy concerns of people in other countries who are the subject of NSA surveillance and suggested he will consider curtailing wholesale international data collection.

If the speech was designed to quell fears, it hasn't entirely worked.