Politics

If the party wants to favor a candidate, that’s its own business, argues DNC lawyer.

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

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

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.

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

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

"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."

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

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.

The super-rich team tries to convince us that all is well with America's economy. Because to them, it's all a game and the middle-class keeps losing.