Politics

Social justice and freedom in all its forms, including media freedom, are at the core of the fight.

While she likes to describe herself as a progressive and as a pragmatist, Stacey Abrams is now on a national path that looks far more “pragmatic” than progressive.

Making the Fed an instrument for disaster – this impacts everyone, yet very few grasp the scope of its influence.

We are no longer trying to avert a constitutional crisis. We are living one.

Big words, like good and evil, come with lots of emotional baggage, little of which stands up to logical scrutiny. The rhetoric of evil drags terms from old-time religion and serves the political class by oversimplifying moral and political complexity, a kind of instant moral sound bite. Is money really evil? Or all of capitalism? Or the western world as if personifies only the worst of humanity? What applies to individual morality works much less well with abstract institutions.

"In their blind loyalty to their mega-donors, Republicans' fixation on giant tax cuts for billionaires has created a revenue problem that is driving up our national debt," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in response to new Treasury Department figures.

Four looming flashpoints facing President Trump

Behold! Our new normal is having two presidents, a weathered veteran and a self-anointed, undisciplined pretender.

It’s time to get this landmark bill passed and build a fairer America.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party and the conservative movement have not yet confronted the profound problems that Trump did not cause but merely symbolizes.