Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about "Obama spending"...

Allan Lichtman, the American University professor whose election formula has correctly called every president since Ronald Reagan’s 1984...

Last year, Braid discussed recording a single for Record Store Day, which eventually turned into the new four-song EP Closer To Closed . Rec...

A small group of donors fund a cluster of think tanks that promote rank Islamophobia. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, a ne...

I have come to the conclusion that our human society and economy is now so large that we have passed the limits of our planet’s capacity to ...

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to...

In a recent report, experts said the number of poor in America is nearly identical by percentage to China where more than half the populatio...

The growing controversy over the leaking of trading documents naming 219 investors in oil futures positions during the 2008 oil price spike ...

Some of the Presidents political advisers have been pushing for small-bore initiatives that they believe might have a chance of getting th...

A group of congressmen, including one Michelle Bachmann, are backing legislation to repeal what they call the "light bulb ban." ...

The best case scenario for Obama and his supporters — gut it out for the next 15 months, eke out a small but impressive-seeming win, then ...

The decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade America’s credit rating marks the clearest sign yet that we have entered a new era in A...

A number of countries have recently rethought their romance with nuclear energy. In Germany, the government has been compelled by a galv...

The recent decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade its credit rating of U.S. government debt from AAA to AA+ resulted not from ...

In a summer littered with big-budget sequels, second-tier superheroes, and the usual animated fare, it is a bit of a shock to find a studio ...

The only surprise is that it happened so fast. The cacophony of right-wing talk about how we need to "cut spending" to create jobs...

When David Frum, former speechwriter for George W. Bush, says nice things about Paul Krugman it's worth taking notice. Krugman was one o...

A new web tool from the Natural Resources Defense Council lets you map climate change threats -- excessive heat, disease risk, pollut...

On one hand, there is a case to be made that the madness of the right has made America a fundamentally unsound nation. And yes, it is the ...

The debt ceiling deal has been struck and the score looks to be in the neighborhood of Republicans: a zillion, Democrats: zero. It is perh...

The weird, eclectic Join Us serves as a refreshing corrective to years of kiddie albums and so-so grown-up discs, and reestablishes Linnell...

The democracy of care, shared responsibility, and trust is the democracy of the American Dream. Democracy, in the American tradition, has ...

The wealth of America is being accelerated to the top and this bill pushes that acceleration. The Budget Control Act of 2011, is a landmar...

If the wealthy are not asked to share in the sacrifice, then cuts will undoubtedly come from those who can least afford it. The debate we ...

If this is your initial introduction to Tom Morello’s “Nightwatchman” saga, then you’re in much better luck than the Rage and Audioslave fan...

The irresponsible decision of the Tea Party Republican right to hold the economy hostage over the raising the debt ceiling has paid off bi...

This “debt crisis” in no way had to happen. No natural disaster, no tsunami, has suddenly pounded the United States out of fiscal balance....

As debates about deficit reduction continued to be heavily tilted toward cutting spending, which threatens to undermine a fragile recovery, ...

Relief workers are struggling to keep up with the exodus of hungry refugees. In some parts of drought-stricken Somalia, one child in 10 is a...

My father believed we are here to lift logs that can’t be lifted, to hammer steel nails so bent they crack when we hit them. In the s...

Until very recently, I had no idea how hard it is for some of our friends just to find somewhere to lay themselves down to sleep at ni...

Anyone surprised by the extremism and irresponsibility now on display by Republicans in the debt limit debate either hasn’t been paying ...

Government-haters seem to be everywhere.  Congressional Republicans, now led by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, hate government so ...

Some politicians might not believe in climate change, but insurance companies do. They track disasters, and it turns out that disasters just...

The current capitalist global crisis began with the severe contraction in the housing markets in mid-2007; therefore welcome to year fiv...

Throughout its ten songs, The Harrow & The Harvest locks into oldness and Americana.  What we have are ten more examples of what make W...

How deceptive for politicians to stress “entitlements” when they talk about gutting Social Security and Medicare, two programs long paid...