This is the boldest, bravest and most bracing book about politics that I have read this year.

Reporters, editors and bloggers have some strong opinions on how the media fared this year.

Trump has consistently sold out the blue-collar, socially conservative whites who brought him to power, while pursuing policies to enrich his fellow plutocrats. What might he do to keep the "base" on his side?

Even the DREAM Act promises too little for too small a group. We must do more.

Policy riders buried in tax and spending bills would let in more political money, less light.

Republicans have long dreamed of destroying the social safety net once and for all; this bill finally threatens to accomplish that.

Five out of six people behind bars awaiting trial are there simply because they can’t afford bail. Community bail funds offer a solution.

“This naked corporatism is Washington at its worst,” says former FCC commissioner Michael Copps.

Sin of the sin-catchers.

The Nobel Prize winner argues that an economy dominated by large corporations has failed the many and enriched the few.