Politics & Elections

Gerald Epstein, codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute, discusses Congress' upcoming decision to raise the debt ceiling.

Monday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell negotiated a deal to end the economic standoff.

Although most polls indicate that Americans are putting the blame on Republicans for the government shutdown in terms of actual politics, the Republicans are winning. The debt ceiling is …

Pity is a powerful tool. And President Obama wields it with mightu2014saying recently that the Republicans are just u201ctrying to mess with meu201du2014in his ongoing Iu2019m-the-good-guy posturing with a …

From March 1967 to October 1970, Muhammad Ali lived in America the Beautiful, not as a free man, but as the embodiment of Baldwinu2019s declaration in 1972.

This week the Supreme Court began its new term with a case that could further upend campaign finance laws by allowing individual donors to give millions of dollars to …

On Tuesday, justices heard arguments in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, which has been referred to as “the next Citizens United.”

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what has become its annual dismantling of campaign finance law.

Mohamed Elmeshad: Dozens killed in clashes across Egypt over the past week, highlighting the violent nature of the country's US-backed coup regime.

They're crazy too. Iu2019m going to shoot you. That will be the method.