Politics

Either we recognize our own responsibility and demand better of ourselves AND our political leaders, or one day soon we will wake up and discover that the country we know and love is gone forever.

Austrians just elected a crusty 72-year-old leftist as their country's president in a surprise result that saw both their major mainstream party's candidates crushed. Could a crusty 74-year-old leftist named Bernie Sanders pull off the same feat here in the US, running as a Green candidate if Hillary Clinton gets the Democratic nomination?

If you are Putin and you did do a deal, what did Trump agree to do?

Corporate interests invented cost-benefit analysis as a way to delay progressive policy through studies and weigh it down by equalizing, for example,...

The idea that the left, even at its extremes, surpasses the right in terms of violence is a myth propagated as much by the center as it is by the right.

This is just the latest in a long list of examples of the Trump administration working with corporate polluters before reversing public safeguards

The Koch Brothers have started a pro-fossil fuel front group, “Fueling U.S. Forward,” that seeks to get the public emotionally invested in fossil fuels as being “pro-human.”

"If they had the chance they would ban it," said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

“I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women."

“By ending this investigation now, DOJ may forgo an effective investigation regarding the facts and scope of criminal wrongdoing.”