Politics & Elections

Addressing the Peace Ball in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the renowned author, educator and political activist Angela Davis urges those content with President Obamau2019s re-election to continue pushing him …

France is in its fifth day of an offensive to oust rebels that have held much of Maliu2019s northern region since March, an area larger than Afghanistan.

The real reason for the Second Amendment's ratification was to preserve slave patrol militias.

In today's On the News segment: Supreme Court throws out challenge to law banning guns in Georgia's churches, and more.

In this installment of America Beyond Capitalism, Gar Alperovitz considers the changes in technology and social organization in the US from 1790 to the present.

Joel Kuperfman: Increased funding and accountability needed for government's response to Superstorm Sandy.

The various present impediments to progressive reform are likely to foster a radicalized politics, a twenty-first century populism that promises individual fulfillment in the context of community.

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.

Reem Khalifa: Reforms promised after UN report are ignored by government.