Politics & Elections

For the past week, in anticipation of local elections this weekend (May 21-22), Spanish students and young people defied legal injunctions and held protests in the country’s major cities. …

President Barack Obama listens during a meeting in the Situation Room of the White House on Sunday, May 1, 2011.

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: mtsofan, FlyingSinger) The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular …

For the first time in over 40 years, I don't intend to vote for any of the candidates running for national election. That is for the simple reason that …

Part of the American Revolution was about to be lost a century after it had been fought.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), the chief architect of the GOP's budget demands. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Every time I think I've seen everything, …

What does the public really think about aiding Israel?

Would this catastrophe really unleash the transformation Japan has sought for so long?

Gingrich has posed as a candidate for a decade now to promote his books, speeches, lobbying business, and other hustles.

Increasingly, the unthinkable emerges in American life as austerity measures are transformed into a specifically deadly way of exercising modes of sovereignty and government power.