Politics

FBI and NSA chiefs verify a Russia probe and refute the president's claims as Republicans scramble to pretend the “drip, drip, drip” hasn't started.

Jeremy Bash: "The job of the committee is to do oversight over the executive branch," not political cover for the president's tweet storm.

What can Americans learn from the citizens of Brazil, Poland, and South Korea who defeated the dragons threatening their democracies?

“The United States government should be responding to the needs, to the desperation, of families in our country at this time.”

Runaway CEO pay contributes to income inequality and ultimately harms companies, so local governments aren’t waiting for a federal fix.

Americans, who have grown jaded about machine voting, and distrustful about its integrity at the same time, should be demanding a return to paper ballots.

The theft of society's wealth may be due to ignorance as well as to greed. Why are we wrongly being advised that the best way to defuse the situation is to teach tolerance for inequality?

"Things aren't changing for the better like they thought would happen. Real wages are not keeping pace with inflation. We haven't replaced the well-paying manufacturing jobs that we lost."

APD’s pattern of using excessive force is a repeated violation of the Fourth Amendment. Are these officers not receiving the proper training to ensure the rights and safety of people with mental illness or in distress?

As we move toward war against ISIS, we must be vigilant – to fairly allocate the burdens of who’s called on to fight the war, to protect civil liberties, to protect innocent civilians abroad, to avoid hate and bigotry, and to fairly distribute the cost of paying for war.