Congress

The term sequester has a haunting meaning for Native Americans who have endured a legacy of legislative disenfranchisement.

Their fat wallets and deep pockets bring together Democrats and Republicans like no one else in a collegial spirit of kumbaya as they dive for dollars in exchange for …

Feinstein claims that the infomation revealed in the Post was old news to her NSA cohorts and contends that the NSA did not deliberately break any laws.

Just because the legislature has ceased to function doesn't mean our government has. Political decision making has moved to peripheral public entities, where power is exercised less transparently and …

There are two easy steps our Senators and Representatives can take now that will dramatically improve the public approval rating of the United States Congress.

The Espionage Act, created around World War I and resulting in a 10-year sentence for a union leader for giving a speech critical of US entry into the war, …

Truthout speaks with John Nichols and Robert McChesney about their new book, “Dollarocracy.”

As more details emerge about the reach of the NSA's power, citizens have more reasons to oppose the program.

In today's On the News segment: The Tea Party is turning on Republicans; rising ocean temperatures rise around the globe, are forcing marine life to migrate to cooler waters; …

Ellen Brown: The Federal Reserve Act might have to be modified, but what Congress has wrought can change.