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The nearly $1 trillion national security budget.

Several cities in the United States, including Chicago, prepare for upcoming protests and major conventions with unprecedented levels of security.

Sherrod Brown

Senator Sherrod Brown has been a leader in taking on the big banks, and now the Chamber of Commerce is retaliating.

Postal service

It’s smart politics—the PO is popular, and could be a great community aid in the digital era.

Roger Williams

The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.
 

The USDA proposes to increase the line speed at poultry plants, which could endanger employees who already work long hours doing repetitive hand motions.

Legislators who are leaving the corporate front group ALEC deserve applause.

Poultry worker

The USDA proposes to increase line speed in poultry plants, but the debate is only about food safety. What about the workers?

Blogs

Why won't the EPA regulate ammonium nitrate? Barbara Boxer wants to know.

April 30, 2013

When will free-traders-gone-wild own up to their complicity in brutal injustices like last week’s deadly factory fire?

April 30, 2013

The poor have long known that a budget cut passed in Congress means hardship in real life. Now middle-class Americans realize that, too.

April 28, 2013

Air traffic controllers are back on the job, but a host of other issues haven't been solved.

April 26, 2013

The governor’s attack on “cross-endorsements” is really a ploy to ban the pesky third party that stands up to corporate interests.

April 24, 2013

Under a Democratic administration's military crusade, the US is putting out a global warrant for its own attack.

April 23, 2013

The Senate Finance Committee chair who often clashed with party progressives and populists is quitting. A very different Democrat might replace him.

April 23, 2013

Who were the al-Awlakis, and why did the US kill them?

April 23, 2013

What do we know—and not know—about the US’s covert, extrajudicial ops?

April 23, 2013

Budget cuts arise because of crises, not vice versa. Will congressional Republicans ever learn?

April 23, 2013