Politics & Elections

Supposed self-defense against rockets diverted attention from war crimes allegations, but neither facts nor law support Israeli self-defense claims.

Much like the days of September 2001, a catastrophic failure of the American security state has morphed into an excuse for hostility and aggression toward traditional overseas adversaries.

As President Obama prepares to serve his final two years as President, he has learnt from his experiences with Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan that American military power cannot …

“Open source” used with electronic voting and tallying systems are not a solution.

I see destroyed shops, broken fences, roofs with holes where shells struck, windows boarded up with plywood, and deserted streets. The local people are living in bomb shelters.

The ultimate conclusion we can draw from this “bipartisan” process is that there is no sense of national interest, and damn little sense of community, in the American political …

What happened in Washington over the past several days sounds strikingly familiar to the First Gilded Age.

Quite a few pundits have admonished the Democratic Party for running poor national and state campaigns during 2014, providing insights into potentially more effective campaigning in 2016.

On the Senate floor last week, outgoing Democratic Sen. Mark Udall called for a purge of top CIA officials implicated in the torture program and cover-up.

Activists have been fighting on two fronts to protect hard-won provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.