Politics

Pleading guilty, former Chicago Public Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett was indicted for accepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for lucrative government contracts. Corrupt politicians continue to line their pockets with taxpayer money.

"This an obvious attempt at political intimidation."

President Trump has already signed 13 repeal measures since assuming office.

Hewing to its centrist instincts will be a disaster for the Biden administration. The left must seize the initiative.

In a bold stance against alleged war crimes, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib protests Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, spotlighting the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and calling for justice.

It was such idealistic “striving” by which Hubert Humphrey set the “moral test of government” – how we treat those who “in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life – the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.”

Billionaires are busy pressuring political candidates to keep their taxes unjustly low. Their opinions shouldn’t—and don’t—matter.

Progressive ballot initiatives passed handily across the country, even in so-called red states.

A former U.S. Security Coordinator official says evidence showed Israeli soldiers intentionally shot the Palestinian American journalist, but senior officials removed that conclusion and the State Department called it “the result of tragic circumstances.”

One journalist investigates the FBI’s use of informants in sting operations in an exposé called "How the FBI Created a Terrorist." Join Democracy Now discusses an elaborately orchestrated FBI sting that took place in 2012.