December 6, 2015The former labor secretary runs down the "dumb ideas" Ryan clings to including tax relief for the rich, Medicaid block grants for the states, Medicare vouchers for seniors and slashing the safety net.
December 4, 2015How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.- December 4, 2015How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.
December 4, 2015Wars are never quick, cheap or easy: Let's acknowledge what a full-scale war in the Middle East would actually mean.
December 3, 2015Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and ultimately run the country into the ground.
December 3, 2015In a new essay, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write that Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and ultimately run the country into the ground.
December 2, 2015This post originally appeared at The Huffington Post. There's an old corruption joke that you'll find variations of in India, in Nigeria, in China -- I've heard versions from everywhere. A bureaucrat from China visits an Indian counterpart and sees the beautiful home and asks, "how did you get this beautiful house?" The Indian functionary answers, "Can you see that bridge?" "Yes" "10 percent," says the bureaucrat, smugly. Then, a decade later, the Indian counterpart returns the ...
December 2, 2015Zephyr Teachout writes that while the state Assembly speaker has been convicted of corruption, he's only a small piece of New York's dishonorable system.
December 1, 2015The list of Republicans running for president is just too long. Perhaps what’s needed is an American Hunger Games to cut the field to size.
December 1, 2015Though President Obama rejected the controversial pipeline, activists on the West Coast are waging an even bigger fight.
