Presidential debates are never about substance — and Trump the showman has the edge.

Five bedrock assumptions that are warping American policy in the Middle East.

How four decades of lobbying and legislation gave corporations dominion over our economy — and eroded the American middle class.

As an inquiry into the complex subject of international terrorism, the 9/11 Commission's 10th anniversary reprise falls far short — but it does serve official DC's purpose.

It's the Democratic Party's own fault that voters struggle to distinguish it from the Republican Party.

Securing state power from the domestic population and securing concentrated private power are driving forces in policy formation.

As the US once again contemplates military action in Iraq, let's not let our history in the region disappear down the memory hole.

Ian Haney López highlights six political ads from the last three decades that used racially coded language to help a candidate get elected.

House Republicans were willing to shut down the government over Obamacare. We take a look back at other critics and roadblocks to social programs that are popular today.

Ten years after George Bush's tax cut on dividends, Bruce Bartlett says even conservative economists can't defend it, including the one who pushed it through.