Politics

Truthout interviews Ken Wishnia, one of today's most perceptive crime fiction writers.

In the United States, for the most part, you don't have to do anything illegal: the system takes care of it for you.

The longer President Obama has been in office the less honest he has become, a problem growing more apparent in his second term.

If there is no pressure from the left, political debate will continue to shift ever rightward, just as it has under Bill Clinton and during Obama's first term.

Since his divorce with the ANC and its leader and South African president, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema has not given up on what he knows best: politics.

Machiavelli thought that curbing the appetites of the super-rich and super-powerful was essential for promoting and protecting everyone's freedom and happiness. He was right. And what was true at …

Calls for US military action in Iraq and Syria in response to the tragic killings of westerners ignore the wider context of instability in the Middle East.

It sure makes running for municipal office a lot easier if your name is Al rather than Eduardo Martinez.

The claim was nonsense then, and it's even greater nonsense now.

Getting to the polls is just the first step.