The irreplaceable Bill Moyers on how the separation of war powers in the U.S. Constitution was designed to make it more difficult, not easier, for the nation to indulge in war.
Our founders knew too well the habits of European kings who went to war at...
I am a Liberal, and I support government building a strong middle-class by creating good jobs and preventing Wall Street from cheating working people.
Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, explains how pro-bank, anti-worker...
President Obama's Weekly Address:
But I didn’t run for President to pass emergency recovery programs, or to bail out banks or to shore up auto companies. I didn’t run for President simply to manage the crisis of the moment, while kicking our most...
In late December 2008, Israel invaded Gaza. It kept all press out of the beseiged strip of land, preventing any independent observation of actions by both the Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas. Unsurprisingly, accusations of war crimes flew on both...
If the Afghanistan escalation is really some kind of 11-dimensional-chess move to escape that clusterfuck while avoiding any political penalty, then President Obama better finish the game before next November. Because the repugs are already three...
