Congress

What happened in Washington over the past several days sounds strikingly familiar to the First Gilded Age.

Without resorting to Super PACs or taking advantage of a new loophole from the Supreme Court, couples or individuals could give roughly eight times more to their party in …

Syringe access is one of many strategies of the harm-reduction movement that is changing the way society deals with drugs from the bottom up.

A left-right coalition, supported by the president and public opinion, could successfully push Congress to end the Cuba embargo.

American politicians are owned. Watching them legislate is like watching dogs sit, roll over, and give you their paw.

On the Senate floor last week, outgoing Democratic Sen. Mark Udall called for a purge of top CIA officials implicated in the torture program and cover-up.

The Senate began investigating the CIA's detainee program nearly six years ago.

The House has passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the move “the worst of government for the rich and powerful.”

Activists have been fighting on two fronts to protect hard-won provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.