The Department of Defense's December review of Afghan strategy glossed over real challenges to the US involvement in the country's political and economic development.

This is the final chapter in the long and winding right-wing witch hunt against an organization that stood strong for poor and working people.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers signed a historic agreement between farmworkers and a major grower.

The foreclosure crisis is now hitting even the safest borrowers. That makes passing the Right to Rent Act, which would enable homeowners who can't get loan modifications to stay in their homes, even more critical.

Jesse Jackson discusses the state of civil rights ahead of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's 39th Annual Conference in Chicago.

The Merkley-Levin amendment would stop investment banks from peddling securities they themselves are betting will fail.  Banks are mobilizing to defeat it, and a vote is expected any day now.

Three working homeowners in Queens faced foreclosure—and JP Morgan Chase refused to modify their mortgages. Now they've brought a lawsuit, and the bank is suddenly responsive.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler chairs a hearing to examine the DOJ's prosecution of predatory lending.

Advocates for paid sick leave took their fight to the Hill this week, and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis cheered them on.