Politics & Elections

Rather than being unspoken and unseen, violence in American life has become both visible in its pervasiveness and normalized as a central feature of dominant and popular culture.

It is a possibility – nay, a likelihood - that the link between public agenda and private worries, the very hub of the democratic process, has been broken.

We no longer live in an age in which history's “winged messengers” bear witness to the suffering of millions.

When the 112th Congress is sworn in Wednesday, Republicans will hold a newfound edge in the House after four years in the minority.

Washington, D.C. - Haiti's elections, which were fraught with widespread irregularities and the arbitrary exclusion of political parties, should be rejected by the international community, Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of …

We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and …

Alexander Hamilton’s strategic proposals for American manufacturing built the greatest industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen -- before they were abandoned.

We have become a country in which democracy is no longer a viable dream; rather, it is a living nightmare haunting those who now control the reins of financial …

The RNC's vote suppression targeted blacks, Hispanics, the poor of all shades and Florida's Jewish voters.

A few Americans are buying our democracy as never before. And they're doing it completely in secret.