Politics

Robert Borosage, founder and president of the Institute for Americau2019s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for Americau2019s Future, is interviewed about the effects of the …

Gerald Epstein, codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute, discusses Congress' upcoming decision to raise the debt ceiling.

Why is the tea party rallying over a closed memorial when so many people are suffering, asks Joshua Holland.

Monday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell negotiated a deal to end the economic standoff.

President Obama says he welcomes the debate on post-9/11 surveillance of Americans and the world, but that debate was only made meaningful by the disclosures of NSA whistleblower Edward …

A ‘deal’ that kicks the can down the road means the ongoing economic harm just keeps harming for the next few months, and then maybe gets worse.

The 7th circuit court judge who wrote the majority opinion in the landmark Crawford v. Marion County Election Board case, has now admitted he got it wrong!

The Obama administration announced Wednesday it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Egyptian military pending u201ccredible progressu201d toward a return to democratic rule.

This geopolitical line dance ignores Netanyahuu2019s stomping on the Palestinians, as Max Blumenthal tells Dennis J Bernstein.

The old saying that u2018you're welcome to your own opinions but not your own facts' seems quaint in today's political environment.