Politics

How the conjunction of dysfunctional military leadership, an ever-growing arms industry and a Congress that keeps handing them trillions of dollars, constitutes the full flowering of President Eisenhower's greatest fears for the future of the United States.

Historian Rick Shenkman tells Bill Moyers that it's the voters and their emotions, not the candidates and their ideas, that will determine the outcome of the election in November.

It is increasingly clear that the wagons have circled both in the Democratic National Committee and in the news media to shut...

Party had been reminded of its platform asserting it will combat the 'global climate emergency.'

Can it be done? Can nuclear weapons be abolished? 

Thus far, however, Biden’s demonstrated negligible aptitude for restoring even an approximation of ordinariness to American life.

We can’t depend on the Congressional Progressive Caucus to provide the kind of leadership we need. It must come from the grassroots.

President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would...

We must insist that trade deals never be written to override policies that sovereign governments might later decide are best for their people, culture key industries and the environment.

Never mind what Trump and the Republicans in Congress say, this is what they do.