Paul Ryan says his plan to overhaul Medicare empowers Americans and guarantees coverage options. What it really does is gives the private insurance industry a green light to prey on seniors.
If select politicians are going to see the bin Laden death photos, shouldn’t others be able to see them too?
Our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have not helped our national security, Jeremy Scahill says, and the US is actually giving people in Afghanistan a reason to want to fight America.
Paul Ryan’s GOP plan to address America’s fiscal problems is being met with much skepticism and rancor at town hall meetings in Wisconsin.
A new law in Michigan gives the governor the ability to unilaterally strip local authorities of their power. Could the law spread to other states?
Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the political class in Washington’s broke and bankrupt debate on the deficit.
If the GOP has their way in the budget battles, they’ll force a childish and unproductive government shutdown.
Republican fanatics are trying to take the country back to a time when workers had no rights.
If the GOP succeeds in cutting back funding for agencies that regulate building standards and facilitate emergency evacuation, how will the US fare in the next unanticipated disaster?