Politics

Flint reveals that there is a much deeper contamination poisoning our country's political morals: namely, an insidious right-wing belief that poor people (particularly people of color who are poor) are underserving moochers whose misfortunes can be ignored.

“I feel sorry sometimes, for the young people who, you know, believe this — they don’t do their own research.”

America’s inequality problem continues to be the worst in the industrialized world. 

From Maine to Missouri, states are bucking the establishment to push radical electoral reforms.

"You’d have done far better with a political system less poisoned by your money – and, therefore, less volatile and polarized, more capable of responding to the needs of average people, less palpably rigged in your favor."

The national media should free itself from this president’s constant demand for exposure and attention.

Did Hillary's campaign and cooperative Democratic officials and Arizona voter officials help her steal a primary win in Arizona on Tuesday? Certainly there were lots of apparent voter suppression efforts afoot.

A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war — killing people around the world, plenty of them women and children.

Play by the rules? For bankers, Rule #1 is “win at any cost.”

With so much clean power available, the price of solar has cost absolutely nothing for certain regions in recent months.