Democracy

Since the founding of our nation, there's always been strong and clear distinctions between public space and private space, and between things that are done by the government and …

Henry Giroux: Public intellectuals must use their resources to question the authoritarian forces of war, violence and privatization threatening the planet.

“The most pernicious development is the incorporation of the black prophetic tradition into the Obama imperial project,” Cornel West tells Chris Hedges.

Our democracy? Really? Is the U.S. system a democracy, and if so, does it belong to us?

Hope is a subversive, defiant practice that resists ideas that pose a threat to democracy.

We must mobilize to save the commons and build the foundation for a world in which people work together.

Small-d democracy in our small-r republic has been collapsing for the last 30 years. We are rapidly reversing 300 years of progress.

Bill Moyers says the parody and satire of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert pay Washington the disrespect it deserves, but in the end itu2019s the cityu2019s predatory mercenaries who …

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: Transparency is the cure for a long off-kilter US foreign policy.

The Constitution and the War Powers Resolution both say that absent an attack on the United States, Congress must approve military action before it takes place. If Congress doesn't …