Politics

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.

With Republicans attempting to block Obamacare at every turn, the American people are the real victims.

The Department of Justice will not remain on the sidelines as the GOP seeks to illegally game the electoral system.

In the Deep South and Florida, Republican governors and state legislatures have turned down the funding to expand Medicaid coverage.