Carson and Trump on Muslims, Latinos: Has the GOP Given Up on Winning the...
Both Ben Carson and Donald Trump's recent remarks against race shows the GOP as the party of exclusion. Maybe they should start being nicer to key demographic groups.
Thousands in Baghdad Protest Lack of Electricity and Services, Demand End of Corruption (Video)
Thousands gathered in the sweltering heat in downtown Baghdad’s Liberation Square protesting against corruption and lack of electricity—a political crisis underlining the dangers of fossil fuels.
Bernie Sanders’ Madison Visit Attracts Biggest Crowd Any Candidate Has Drawn So Far
Sanders has a Sisyphean task. Sanders wants to build a fire under American workers in order to stop them from getting walked all over, and he may well succeed.
Country Music, Tea Party ‘Populism,’ and Ted Cruz
The billionaire-backed funding for Ted Cruz comes from those the billionaire-backed groups and individuals that oppose raising the minimum wage, or even the existence of a minimum wage, want to gut Medicare, Social Security and unemployment benefits, and want to reduce their own taxes even more.
As our children head back to school, partisan politics threatens their learning and their...
America’s children shouldn’t be held hostage to a partisan political brawl. It’s time we focused solely on their learning and their safety.
It’s a $cam!
The evidence is in: the U.S. military is incapable of responsibly spending your tax dollars.
An Act of Protest, Not Sabotage, at the Birthplace of the Bomb
The security breach at the military complex Y-12 sent shock waves through the national-security establishment. While the three Transform Now Plowshares activists faced federal sabotage charges and up to 30 years in prison, they were still out on bail and free to attend the congressional hearings prompted by their act of civil disobedience.
Hillary Finally Spoke Up About Inequality—20 Years Ago
Hillary Clinton was prescient in addressing the harms of an increasingly unfair economy just as she was 20 years ago, when President Clinton was running for re-election and wrote against the odds, "It Takes A Village." Is she really a progressive?
No, Donald Trump, the Middle East Wouldn’t be More Stable Under Saddam and Other...
Donald Trump recently made a statement that if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still around, or if Bashar al-Assad could be restored in Syria that the Middle East would be more stable. But he must be mistaken.
Iran Debate: Clinton Steps Up to Oppose The Demagogues
Iran was the subject of one of the most troubling moments in Hillary's 2008 campaign, when she promised to "totally obliterate" that country if the mullahs ever attacked Israel with a nuclear weapon. Has she changed at all?