Politics

Only five years ago, Sen. Barack Obama was part of a group of legislators that supported substantial changes to NSA surveillance programs.

Al-Qaeda's power has waned in Mali, but unresolved ethnic conflicts still threaten the country after 16 months of civil war.;

The FEC is in the news with reports that Republicans are trying to force changes that would neutralize it even further.

Shamus Cooke: The battle for the future of Egypt is underway, and it's chaos.

President Obama and his congressional colleagues are carrying on an established, yet clearly dangerous, tradition of U.S. foreign policy — the mixing up of national interest and the parochial …

Real democracy in the Arab world is not in the American interest.

Edward Snowden is not a constitutional lawyer. But his public statements explaining his decision to blow the whistle on what he and Congress both know to be only the …

While the weight of taxation continues to shift to the backs of the working and middle classes and onto the books of small businesses, Congress dithers about reforming the …

A new report reveals that a secretive DEA unit funnels surveillance info from gov't agencies to law enforcement — and tells them to hide it.

Brendan Fisher: After forty years, corporate-funded ALEC remains an organization filled with secrecy.