Politics

Today I'll survey several factors feeding this unfolding fiasco.

There is a simple way to avoid one of the most destructive elements in recent failed negotiations with Iran

This surge in billionaire campaign spending has ignited calls for wealth taxes on the ultra-rich and stringent limits on campaign contributions to protect the voices of ordinary Americans.

A new proposal from Sen. Bernie Moreno would require millions of Americans to renounce either their U.S. citizenship or their foreign citizenship within one year.

The president’s directive to restart nuclear weapons testing, announced just before his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, has sparked alarm among arms control experts and lawmakers who warn it could trigger global escalation and radioactive fallout.

The last 12 months have shown that Donald Trump’s party is bent on methodically inflicting vast cruelty and injustice while aiming to crush what’s left of democracy and the rule of law.

The United States and Russia must also finally assume the responsibility that comes with stockpiling over 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, and agree on a plan to start dismantling them, in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.

By reforming the tax system, Sanders has boldly called out the top 10 corporate tax dodgers that he intends to make pay their fair share, without awarding them enormous tax breaks and massive refunds.

Is getting born any less of a right than the “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” set piece that buttresses our opening national gambit?