U.S. Politics / Elections

Many agree that the V-22 Osprey is a major bust, so why does the government keep authorizing spending on it?

We cannot rely on catastrophe to save us.

How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.

Building a progressive U.S. politics means looking beyond the back-and-forth swings of each election cycle.

The expanding rights of corporate “people” are creating an ever-greater gap between America's democratic ideals and political reality.

The unshakable notion that everyone in the country is middle class has helped push us ever closer to a society where nobody is.

Public sector unions are among the only institutions that still stand against the unchecked influence of corporations. And they are under attack.

Mark Engler quoted in a Russian article about Obama's first 100 days.

There are no palm trees in Wisconsin. And public fiscal problems were not caused by union greed.

Paul Rogat Loeb's well-regarded 1999 book on activism is out in a revised and updated edition.