Politics

The two nations to vote against it were the U.S. and its ally, Israel, while Ukraine and Moldova simply did not vote.

It’s not just Democrats that see the virtue in reforming presidential elections.

Graef Crystal proved that corporations won't police themselves. Maybe good policies can.

GOP leaders want to protect your "freedom" to be poor, powerless, sick, and uninsured.

Jill Stein finally was given a chance to respond to the same questions posed to Trump and Clinton.

Settling our differences through ballots and agreed-upon processes rather than through force is what separates democracy from authoritarianism. Trump wants the latter.

Insuring a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels towards clean energy must remain a global priority.

Public universities are the major vehicles of upward mobility in America—educating 73 percent of all college students. But do these public universities provide a higher-quality education than the private elites?

Like Washington and Lincoln, FDR would have regarded Trump and all that surrounds him as abhorrent.

By his own oblivious measure, this reality stands out: no one now knows whether Trump ever means what he says. Or ever did. No wonder 2/3’s of the country judge Trump untrustworthy and unfit, if not the greatest phony dreaming of the WH? The seeming jokester has managed to turn himself into prime object of ridicule. This is politics as phantasmagoria, along with gruesome nightmares American is kaput. If language no longer has meaning, all bets are off, doomed by Trump’s indecipherable intentions. Nothing exactly new here if you track predatory sales pitches, intensely self-serving narcissism, even what most people end up calling crazy, deranged, or unstable.