Government Shutdown

Let 2 million federal workers know you have their backs when they refuse to comply with the Trump-GOP agenda.

The last government shut down cost our nation billions, but Republicans are thinking about doing it all over again just to protect Big Oil and the Coal Lobby, and …

Republicans gave us two of the lamest House sessions in history, humiliating us internationally with crazed apocalyptic rhetoric while giving us the government shutdown and little else, the pundits …

Former House Parliamentarian on how both parties change the rules when in the majority at the expense of real debate.

The Democratic Party's failure to seriously challenge Wall Street could allow the Tea Party to hold on to the populist mantle.

The NSA scandal isn't going away, and each leak tears a bigger hole in our current governing structure.

While we continue to argue about the debt ceiling we need to be having real discussions about the role of government in the US and how the conservative right …

Neoliberal shock doctrine has once again pushed this country further to the right, and it is the American people who will suffer for it.

Tea Party ideology in Washington today is just a modern-day reboot of the same government obstructionist strategies that have been around since the early days of slavery.

As the Koch brothers try to save face after the failure of the government shutdown, Mary Bottari takes a look at how their investments are bringing America to the …