Politics & Elections

What's the difference between “targeted” and “mass” surveillance?

Cultural critic Henry Giroux explains how a new strain of authoritarianism has seized US politics and culture.

Health care reform has become a top-down issue — corporate profits and oligarchy vs. democracy and the public interest.

Paperless and privatized electronic voting systems have made the US tradition of election rigging that much easier.

It may have come as a surprise to Trump, a guy who loves to fire people, when half of his Hispanic Advisory Board quit after his immigration speech.

Johnston's new biography of Donald Trump has just been published; it's called “The Making of Donald Trump.”

The reasons why our seemingly progressive country is slow to change are complicated.

Ian Haney-Lopez's book is timely in the current presidential campaign, given Donald Trump's coded racial appeals.

In Baltimore, activists are urging city officials to move beyond “tax increment financing” that privileges billionaires at public expense.

Trump assumes everyone else is bending the rules like he is.