Politics

It’s not just Trump, Republicans as a party are using Trump to engage in a general assault on protections from corruption, pollution, corporate fraud and financial scams.

The U.S. is selling weapons to a country that's killing a child every 10 minutes. That has to stop.

Each of these stunning disclosures gives Wikileaks and Julian Assange sufficient concern to consider himself a marked man.

So much for “Marco-mentum.”

Youth protests have popped up from time to time–in Turkey, Yemen, and now Beirut and Baghdad–where they are shaking up politics and calling for an end to corrupt governments.

Criminal insanity in Washington is bipartisan.

The fate of our country lies with those who have not yet voted, with those who remain politically active, and with the superdelegates.

“This is not so much a budget as an ideological statement.”

A recent political scandal in which investments done in secret are politically connected with Wall Street's firms who are in return earning millions off of taxpayers is getting little coverage. Journalist David Sirota is revealing his findings about these secrets to Democracy Now.

It will no doubt feel to many on the left that a strategy that’s less reliant on national leadership is too slow and requires more work on the part of voters to not only become activists, but to participate in local elections and make an effort to look at the records and policy proposals of down ballot candidates in national ones.