Politics

Since the first disclosures based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Obama has offered his own defenses of the programs. But not all of the president's …

Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence (if he had told the truth).

Michael Ratner: By portraying NSA surveillance as “patriotic,” President Obama ignores the violations of Americans' constitutional rights.

Isaiah J. Poole: Congress' adjournment for the week without renewing unemployment benefits was the left jab of a one-two punch against the jobless.

Neither the Iraq War nor US involvement in it has ever really ended.

A term used constantly during three months of wrangling between Germany's two biggest parties, once seen as “irreconcilable foes,” to form a nice joint government.

The cost of American democracy is the most expensive in the world.

Americans don't know much about geography.

Corporate marketing companies are selling junk food to our kids, and they're doing it right in our nation's schools.

If the state puts political activists in handcuffs for shutting down bridges, it should do the same to governors and the minions who do their bidding.