|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By Carl Safina
$15.55
By Ellen Goodman
$24.95
$35
|
|
|
|
Shutterstock photo of tax forms.
|
By Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
The IRS division responsible for flagging tea party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say.
Posted on May 17, 2013
READ MORE 
|
AP/Don Ryan
|
By Joe Conason — Having served in Congress for more than three decades—and in the upper chamber since 1996—Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one of the Senate’s more serious and diligent members.
Posted on May 16, 2013
READ MORE
|
AP/Rich Pedroncelli
|
By Bill Boyarsky — In a time when America’s politicians strive to be everywoman and everyman, Brown goes his own way.
Posted on May 15, 2013
READ MORE
|
AP/Cliff Owen
|
By Robert Scheer — How astonishing to have a public servant who actually cares to inform the public about the inner workings of the system of crony capitalism that has wedded big government with big business.
Posted on May 14, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By Amy Goodman — Rape is center stage this week after the dramatic rescue of three women from close to a decade of imprisonment in a house on a quiet street in Cleveland.
Posted on May 8, 2013
READ MORE
|
Image from Core Capital Partners website
|
Forget the CIA. The Federal Communications Commission is like the fourth branch of American government, and its officials are not elected.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
READ MORE 
|
Shutterstock photo of robbery.
|
By Joe Conason — The gun lobby and its legislative servants are “soft on crime”—although they routinely pretend to be tough on criminals.
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
READ MORE 
|
Shutterstock photo of vote keyboard
|
By Lois Beckett, ProPublica —
Republicans want to use data to make predictions about individual voters, and they may contract with a “data warehousing” company used by Wal-Mart and Apple.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
READ MORE
|
AP/Tanya Bindra
|
By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The nation’s communities and fisheries have bounced back over the last year with local fishermen seeing their catches increase.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
READ MORE
|
Rand Paul (CC-BY-SA)
|
By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By David Sirota — Why are ideas widely supported in most of the country so often portrayed as controversial, polarizing and divisive once they are taken up by legislatures?
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By David Sirota — Despite its success in recent elections, and despite the image of unity it projects, the Democratic Party is in the throes of an epic identity crisis pitting its corporate money against its stated principles.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By Joe Conason — Savvy Republicans know that something is deeply wrong with the GOP —frequently mocked these days by Republicans themselves as “the stupid party”—which has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The deficit that should concern us most right now has to do with time, not money. Money can be recouped. Time just disappears.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By David Sirota — In my years reporting on the intentional narrowing of political vernacular to guarantee specific outcomes, I have encountered no better example of Orwellian newspeak than that which now dominates the conversation about America’s drone war.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By Richard Reeves — President Obama said "jobs" 47 times in his State of the Union message last Tuesday night, so we know what’s on his mind.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By Amy Goodman — For the first time in its 120-year history, the Sierra Club engaged in civil disobedience, the day after President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
READ MORE
|
AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
|
By Peter Z. Scheer — President Obama’s fifth State of the Union address was so wide ranging and inclusive, it’s almost difficult to recall the most ambitious proposals.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By Eugene Robinson — Republicans shouldn’t worry that President Obama is trying to destroy the GOP. Why would he bother? The party’s leaders are doing a pretty good job of it themselves.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If you care about deficits, you should want our economy to grow faster. If you care about lifting up the poor and reducing unemployment, you should want our economy to grow faster. And if you are a committed capitalist and hope to make more money, you should want our economy to grow faster.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
READ MORE
|
White House/Pete Souza
|
By William Pfaff — The overall failure of American foreign policy during the first Obama presidency was foreseeable.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By David Sirota — There’s a big reason climate change differs from so many public policy challenges: Unlike other crises, addressing the planet’s major environmental crisis truly requires mass consensus.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Canines have more to do with presidential elections than one might think; the conditions in which alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning was detained were “excessive,” a military judge found; meanwhile, The Associated Press has started selling sponsored tweets on its Twitter feed. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
READ MORE
|
Bob Jagendorf (CC-BY)
|
Mother Jones profiles a growing coalition of environmental, labor and civil rights groups, including Greenpeace and the NAACP, that began meeting off the record in December to try to figure out “what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement.”
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
READ MORE
|
AP/Narciso Contreras
|
By Bill Boyarsky — Politicians are still terrified of the NRA, even though analysis shows that the organization’s power is greatly exaggerated.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The potential of a renaissance in conservative thought is enormous, if the right can overcome a certain intellectual laziness and inflexibility that, in fairness, have at other times afflicted the progressive side of politics.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
By Joe Conason — If President Obama honestly wants to negotiate an agreement with Republicans before the year-end fiscal deadline, he must be deeply frustrated. And if he doesn’t really want to negotiate with them, then he should be delighted, for the same reason.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
READ MORE
|
Office of the Speaker of the House/Bryant Avondoglio
|
By Eugene Robinson — How dare he? President Obama, I mean: How dare he do what he promised during the campaign? How dare he insist on a “balanced approach” to fiscal policy that includes a teensy-weensy tax increase for the rich? Oh, the humanity.
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
By William Pfaff — France has a double crisis. Its ruling political party, Francois Hollande’s Socialist, is in a state of catatonia, usually defined as a condition of incoherence with alternate periods of stupor and activity. More after the jump about that.
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
READ MORE
|
View the most popular tags overall?
|
|
Truthdigger of the Week: Medea Benjamin
Newsletter 
Like Us
Follow Us
Get Our Feed
