As the company moves to Internet-based telephone service, it’s looking to shed regulatory obligations that benefit low-income Americans.

With a two-seat gain while chair of the DSCC and a successful effort to get a budget through the Senate under her belt, Patty Murray has become a major force in the Senate.

The prominent liberal think tank still skirts questions about its donors.

The Republicans, with the exception of a few die-hard libertarians, always do the bidding of the banks that finance them, but the Democrats are just as eager to pig out at the bankers’ trough.

From North Africa to the Middle East to China’s Central Asian border, how many years will it be?

It’s absurd to expect agency auditors to sort out confusing, outdated campaign finance laws and regulations.

In the name of homeland security, the US has spent seven years and untold dollars silencing one man.

In his film, Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill unveils America's extrajudicial, covert, transcontinental battlefield. 

America’s covert warfare—a bizarre form of unconscious wish fulfillment—warrants Scahill’s unembedded, dogged, independent reporting.

His next appointee for FCC chair could determine whether robber barons consolidate their domination of the public discourse.