Politics

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!

Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reveals an opaque world with little oversight.

Indigenous Peoples have long advocated for the environment through the lens of their traditional knowledge systems and cultures.

A New Republic and Embold Research survey finds broad unity on taxing the rich, regulating big tech, and a more aggressive posture, with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leading favorability.

Florida Democrat Angie Nixon, a progressive who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, won Democrats’ nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in a stunning upset that gave progressives a win in a highly unlikely state.

Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

The firings leave the Election Assistance Commission without commissioners after it resisted Trump’s push to add proof-of-citizenship requirements to federal voter registration.

A tiny fraction of donors supplied nearly one-fifth of all federal campaign spending as billionaire influence surged to unprecedented levels.

When young children and teenagers get into trouble, the question often comes quickly: Where were their parents? That question is again shaping public policy in communities across the country, as state and local lawmakers and prosecutors increasingly look for ways to respond to concerns about youth crime and public disorder.

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.