Politics

A new report concludes that current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour doesn’t come close, anywhere in the United States.

Bad news about Obamacare could stifle Democrats’ momentum heading into Election Day as they try to retake the Senate.

The backward and often scientifically illiterate US Congress can barely bring itself to allow a tax write-off for wind turbines each year, disrupting the industry here with uncertainty.

Americans won’t be safe until all fraudulently-inclined institutions are discredited and their leaders are replaced.

Why Is It So Hard to Reduce the Pentagon Budget?

In the past, platforms that are adopted during campaign seasons are quickly forgotten after the election has passed, but hopefully Sanders can change that.

Look at all the marvels we learned this past year. Our revered democracy, battered by money and bludgeoned by bad faith, can still distinguish an utter phony, skilled mainly as con artist, from adult candidates capable of governance. All but Trump offer the minimum for any viable president: deflecting monumental disruption and chaos.

Iceland, known for its numerous bubbling hot springs and geysers, already heats up to 90 percent of its homes and supplies about a third of its electricity with geothermal.

Hayden understood the tidal forces of generational shift and the interplay between our political and private lives.

The TPP is not about free trade.