Will Obama block the Keystone Pipeline or just keep bending?

Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What’s wrong with this picture?

The senator has put a hold on the confirmation of the new FCC chief until he's promised the agency won’t follow the law and disclose the real funders of dark money group political ads.

The fawning coverage of crony capitalists by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. does America a disservice.

Meet the up-and-coming activists who are leading the grass-roots movements for economic, social and environmental justice.

Congressman Peter Welch is preparing legislation to ensure that JPMorgan can't write off any of the $13 billion settlement it owes the government in its taxes.

Since 1996, the number of families with children living in extreme poverty — that is, on $2 a day or less — has gone up nearly 130 percent.

Amid so much dysfunction, some in Congress are fighting for reform. Here are five bipartisan bills that could help fix our broken democracy.

Protesters from Power Shift marched through downtown Pittsburgh earlier this week demanding an end to fossil fuel energy development.

The law seems more focused on stopping the state's changing demographics from affecting election outcomes than it is on stopping voter fraud.