Government Shutdown

The result of the government shutdown could be catastrophic or the political epiphany this country needs. Here are some possible outcomes.

The push to privatize the public sector through contracting out is expanding our economic divide.

By taking up the Obamacare battle, Boehner's grip on the speakership may be tightening, not loosening.

Over 20,600 barrels of oil fracked from the Bakken Shale has spilled from a Tesoro Logistics pipeline in Tioga, North Dakota in one of the biggest onshore oil spills …

Dual outbreaks of salmonella and non-viral hepatitis have sickened hundreds and left one person dead.

The fiscal crisis in Washington is not simply a threat to economic and government stability, it is a premeditated scheme to carve out a new constitutional structure that gives …

House Republicans continue to point the finger at President Obama for the government shutdown.

President Obama's most significant achievement, his legacy for all time, could be facing down these cretins.

Noam Chomsky gives his perspective on the US government shutdown, the Syrian civil war, capitalist reform in South America and more in a Truthout interview.

Paul Krugman: The monster the wealthy created has turned on its creators.