Politics

This Friday, the SNAP program will be slashed by $5 billion anyway, thanks to the expiration of the 2009 Recovery Act that increased funding to that program.

“Moral Mondays” organizer and North Carolina AFL-CIO President James Andrews discusses the strategy behind escalating protests against the state's extremist Republicans.

The current Republican obsession with attacking programs that benefit Americans in need, ranging from food stamps to health care reform, isn't about some philosophical commitment to small government; after …

Donu2019t be ashamed, my Koch Brothers; the world is full of students whou2019ve begun to lose a grip on their bladders.

Here is the real danger: We're making murder in its most recognizable form acceptable.

The Pakistani military leadership had turned decisively against the drone war for years and has been strongly pressing in meetings with U.S. officials that Pakistan be given a veto …

These activists know that the radical ideas of one generation are often the common-sense ideas of the next: They are practical idealists.

Why do Tea Party adherents favor policies that are often directly counter to their economic interests?

With the interim ‘debt ceiling/government shutdown’ agreement reached last week between the Obama administration and the Teaparty-driven U.S. House of Representatives, the real negotiations on deficit cutting—aka Austerity American …

The full Social Security benefit is pegged to a u201cretirement ageu201d thatu2019s many years after most people retire.