Barack Obama

The Republican Party, which should have the wind at its back, enters 2014 in disarray bordering on open warfare.

It's going to take a lot more pressure than we see now from ordinary citizens to shake up this cozy duopoly.

Fifty years ago, exactly one month after John Kennedy was killed, the Washington Post published an op-ed titled

Dean Baker: President Obama wants the public to believe that inequality is something that just happened.

A coalition of civil liberty and technology groups initially skeptical about Obama's panel told reporters that they support many of the recommendations.

Despite his rhetoric, Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than any administration in history and overseen the massive growth of the NSA's surveillance apparatus.

For most Americans, it's win-win for Afghan President Hamid Karzai to stand up to Washington: US troops would come home, or peace talks would begin.

On Monday, a federal judge ruled the NSAu2019s bulk collection of Americansu2019 phone records, quote, “almost certainly” violates the Fourth Amendmentu2019s prohibition against unreasonable searches.

Increases in payroll taxes, the Detroit bankruptcy and repression against protesters indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.

State after state is voting to defy federal marijuana laws, resulting in a chaotic patchwork of legalization schemes that has put the Justice Department in the awkward position of …