Politics

All Americans, not just the president, weep at the image of 20 little children gunned down as they hid in their classrooms in Newtown, Conn. What can be …

People are thoroughly neutralized by the false sense of political empowerment that guns give them.

The outcome of a showdown between the two countries will depend on a complicated interplay between private diplomacy and public theater.

In the deadliest rampage at an elementary school in U.S. history, 20 first-grade students and six staff members were killed Friday in Newtown, Connecticut. All of the children killed …

Let's hope this president takes the challenge and follows through.

Is the GOP going the way of the Whigs and the Dodo?

In reality, the ‘revolt’ in Syria, totally managed by foreign countries and their intelligence services, was a proxy war which only needed Syrians to serve as local color.

Frustrated Gazan youth appeal to the world to hear their sorrow and rage, best described years ago by the late Edward Said.

The US federal government is awash is ethical mechanisms but its enforcement record is poor - to the detriment of public trust and ultimately, democracy.

Unless we amend the Constitution to say that corporations are not people and that money is not speech, America will soon become a full-blown oligarchy.