Politics

A corporate-backed lobbying group is pushing a slate of amendments to transfer power from people to big business.

A diverse coalition of progressive leaders and grassroots organizers mobilize to defeat Trump while pushing Kamala Harris on critical issues like Gaza and a working-class agenda.

Conservatives continue to claim that Medicare is running out of money and must be pared back. Medicare actually isn't the problem. The actual problem lies with healthcare coverage expected to rise steeply.

The governing logic of the Trump administration increasingly treats both Democratic-controlled U.S. states and neighboring countries as spaces requiring imperial pacification rather than democratic self-rule.

"It is wrong to use words to hurt, threaten and exclude." Two students who allegedly led a song that included a racial slur at the University of Oklahoma were recently expelled for their hostility. It's since spurred a mobilization of students standing up to racism.

Who needs facts when we’ve got Kellyanne?

Secular democracy, as in majority rule, is just as threatened by religious fanaticism as it is by looming dictatorship.

Only Congress, Republicans and Democrats acting together, can protect the nation from this incompetent, venal, and dangerous executive.

While Hillary Clinton is still not the most-beloved politician, some readers seem to have warmed to her during a convention with a markedly more optimistic tone than last week’s RNC.

Improper political interference in government research undermines the critical role that unbiased science plays in our democracy.