Politics

Republicans have advanced a number of arguments to defend their position. None of them hold up to scrutiny.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently approved a permit to lay a tar sands crude pipeline from Illinois to Indiana. Environmental groups are doing all they can to stop it by requesting a full National Environmental Policy Act review for Enbridge's proposal.

In a comprehensive new survey, most voters favored a decrease of at least $12 billion in the Pentagon’s spending and called for killing some costly military programs.

Congress should expand legal avenues of immigration, along with a roadmap to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already here—a policy with broad public support.

A Wisconsin judge ruled on Thursday that laws passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in December to limit the powers of newly elected...

The Pentagon will never be forced to make significant reforms until Americans stop believing in (and consenting to) its comforting lies.

Many Republican governors have forbidden mask mandates and have fought vaccination mandates (routine for other deadly diseases such as polio) in the courts.

Prosecutors in Baltimore just dropped all remaining charges against the last three city police officers awaiting trial in the death of Freddie Gray.

The West is focused on Russia's war in Ukraine. Here's why the rest of the world should care as well.

Congressional hopeful Jess King is bringing an anti-poverty agenda to the working-class community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.