Politics

Whatever McRaven’s explanation, he might consider whether instead of continuing to use our military power to try to shore up our morally bankrupt empire, we should start to tell the truth and take those moral principles seriously before we repeat our mistakes once again.

The lawmaker was facing an expulsion hearing after an internal investigation found he had furnished a 19-year-old staffer with alcohol and later tried to intimidate her into silence about what transpired and their relationship.

The U.S. is laying the groundwork for war against Venezuela.

"Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law-enforcement officer of our country and must resign."

For the dim and benighted (including the Donald), politics has become anything but a profitable grift road to riches.

As we watch the Democrats failing to match the Republican’s strategies in reaching and influencing the American people, the word to them must be: “it’s the Bully Pulpit, stupid!”

Wall Street Insiders who trade on confidential information unavailable to small investors don’t improve the productivity of financial markets. They just rig the game for themselves.

"At a time of record inequality, the very last thing we should do is line the pockets of the rich."

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The move came after the Fed, for the first time, formally acknowledged the threat climate change poses to the global financial system.