Politics

“Not so incidentally, the $25 billion spending increase approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee exactly matches the cost to scale up Covid-19 vaccine production to meet global demand.”

The time is ripe for Democrats to step into this void of presidential and Congressional action and take charge.

Overall, Biden’s foreign policy has been a mixed bag so far, keeping many aspects of the previous administration's diplomacy while changing the tone in a more positive direction.

Even a system that calls itself a democracy can become an oligarchy if power becomes concentrated in the hands of a few very wealthy people – a corporate and financial elite.

It’s hard to improve on economist and FAIR contributor Dean Baker’s observation that corporate media’s calls for cuts to programs for the elderly under...

Poland offers a frightening example of the right-wing populism sweeping through many nations. Neoliberalism is wrecking economies, creating rage among the working class, devastating cultural institutions and eroding liberal democracy across Europe and in the United States.

No one could have seen this one coming.

The world is changing far too quickly for people to get used to it, and the rate of expansion isn’t slowing down. No one can keep track, at least not alone.

The Trump administration has shifted from extermination to annihilation in its war against the Islamic State.

Indian Health Service is a great example of health care run and managed by the government. Let’s use it to figure out what works and what doesn’t.