Politics

Polls had been showing Clinton ahead in the state up until voting day. Here's how Bernie beat the odds.

Donald Trump calls Bernie Sanders a communist while campaigning in Iowa City.

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

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

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.”

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.

President Obama says we must get involved with the conflict in Syria to help destroy ISIS, but what if that is not entirely the case? Could a pipeline issue in Syria be the true reason the U.S. has gotten involved? As this crisis deepens we will find out.

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

"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."