Politics

While holding onto their GOP electorate, they claim to fight for the libertarian agenda, arguing for smaller government, removing the government from everyone's personal lives, etc.

Paul Krugman: Now that things are getting better with Healthcare.gov, you can already see the rage building in the right wing.

Most of us are enslaved in our neo-feudal system, but most don't even know it.

What do Iranians want from their newly elected government and how will this deal play at home?

Thom Hartmann comments on the news for Friday, December 13, 2013.

If you want to completely crash the economy, the best way to do it is to slash government spending.

There is nothing idealized about the difference between a society whose arrangements serve all its citizens and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.

Even if ALEC were to disappear tomorrow, its agenda still would be propelled by a variety of institutional allies.

It's becoming increasingly clear that Republicans don't actually believe their own talking points.

France sends 1,000 troops into the Central African Republic as violence continues to escalate.