The Best and Worst Presidents on Taxes
From Reagan to Roosevelt, tax fairness continues to fluctuate along with our elected leaders.
Both Candidates Are Bad on Climate, and You Can Thank Campaign Finance Rules For That
Building new pipelines and subsidizing fossil fuels with taxpayer dollars will not help us avoid climate disaster, Janet Redman tells the Real News.
Democratic Party Platform: Lots of Hot Air on Climate Change
Janet Redman, who provided testimony at the DNC Platform Committee, and Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch, address the draft’s shortcomings on the carbon tax, TPP, fracking, and fossil fuel extraction
The House Sit-In Would’ve Been More Powerful if It Rejected ‘No Fly, No Buy’
House Democrats are legitimizing error-prone, Islamophobic terrorist “watch lists” as the basis for gun control. That won’t make anyone safer.
Case Against Obama Administration for War on ISIS Raises More Political Questions than Legal Ones
Captain Smith is using the question of lack of authorization as the basis for his challenge, but there is a chance that he could also raise issues of illegality in how the war is being carried out, Bennis told RT America.
The Candidate Our Foreign Policy Deserves
Our foreign policy is aggressive, parochial, and hard-hearted. Unless voters finally demand differently, our next president will be the same.
Latinos’ One-Sided Love Affair with Obama
Obama overwhelmingly won the Latino vote despite his lackluster immigration record.
George McGovern’s Shining Moment
McGovern’s 1972 White House run was the last time presidential politics would be so open or so democratic.
Remembering George McGovern and Old-School Campaign Tools
Being decent, humane, smart, caring, and brave was not enough.
A Plan for the Democratic Party
If the Dems win big in November, they should use their newfound political capital.
The Politics of Inequality
Sorry, folks, but the ladder is temporarily out of order.
Top Democrats Push Obama on Capital Controls
Representatives Barney Frank and Sander Levin say that cannot support U.S. trade agreements unless the administration does more to protect governments from investor lawsuits.
Declaration of War
Republican firebrands want to set Romney’s agenda.
The Rich are Profiting Like It’s 1929
We’re being sold a bill of goods, people.
Blame the No-Way Party for the Debt Ceiling Collision
Commentators who say that the two sides were almost “unable to come to an agreement” in the debt talks are laughable.