Liberal outfits were targeted, too. Bad news for the Republican scandalmongers: The IRS also gave special scrutiny to groups with progress...

The past 40 years have been a time of vaulting libertarianism; we need a communitarian corrective, which seems quite impossible at this mo...

Ryan and his family have a long history of relying on government, just like any and all of us do. Rep. Paul Ryan is back to his old tric...

The loss of a job thanks to abuse can end up cutting off a lifeline to end that abuse. Last week, Carie Charlesworth, a teacher in Califor...

Another instance of the most business-friendly justices in 65 years siding with their friends. In a 5-3 ruling with Justice Sonia Sotomay...

Already TransCanada is digging up stretches of faulty piping. Property owners who watched with disgust and fear as TransCanada contractors...

There’s a connection between the ownership structure of our economy and the vitality of our democracy. Cities where small, locally owned...

Innocence, of course, is just one reason to end executions. Abolition in Maryland, which has executed more than 300 people, is important. ...

To this day, antipersonnel weapons—the technologically refined version of the primitive pressure cooker fragmentation bombs exploded in Bo...

Austerity leads the economy to perform more poorly. The last week has been a flurry of headlines decrying the complete and utter failure o...

Yes, this is only a counter-factual exercise, which, like all such riffs, shouldn’t be taken too literally. But it’s hard to think about i...

I don't think that the human soul was made to sustain information about a planet's worth of suffering--everyday--when, in most cas...

What is wrong with the New York Post? Thursday morning, the tabloid newspaper’s front page featured a huge photo of two young men with b...

Zorn was eventually removed from the equipment by local police and taken into custody. Oklahoma grandmother Nancy Zorn, 79, locked herse...

Austerity economics — of which Ryan’s upcoming budget is the most extreme version — is a cruel hoax.  Republicans lost the election but th...

What's good for American business isn't necessarily good for Americans. The Dow hit a record high this week, but who's winning...

Sequestration is only the start. Imagine a plot to undermine the government of the United States, to destroy much of its capacity to do th...

They have been able to become so large because of the evisceration of antitrust law during the Reagan administration. Just 20 companies ...

The fight over the fiscal cliff was just one battle in that war. Our 2 major political parties are engaged in a fierce struggle over the...

A year ago, as the curtain was closing on 2011, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood in front of an audience at the United Nations...

Koi No Yokan is a record that will forever sit high upon Deftones’ burgeoning list of impressive achievements. Chino Moreno’s distinctive ...

In the wake of the unthinkable massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, pro-gun ideologues are once again calling for ordinary citizens to arm ...

It is the market that is attacking Christmas. Indeed, the market has all but conquered Christmas. I personally don’t mind seeing religio...

Think of it as the archeology of decline, Grim as the Debtpocalypse scenarios might seem, there is something confected about the mise-en-...

Although you might never know it from listening to the pundits, America isn't broke. We have plenty of money to pay for government p...

The facts of the case mattered less than what it represented: a city fighting back against the thugs, whether they were guilty of anything...

A Circle Of Protection This season is when many in our country give of their time and money to help those in need. These programs are im...

Calling airstrikes that kill civilians more often than fighters "precise"–well, perhaps there's a more precise word than tha...

It's a conceptually hilarious invasion premise and completely implausible. Hollywood has remade Red Dawn, and the foreign-policy commu...

You’re just as likely to save money on most items at other times in the year. Instead of spending time with their families on Thanksgiving...

The causes of hunger in the United States are rooted in poverty.  Once annual food insecurity data was collected, beginning in 1995, it be...

All the usual suspects are cheering on their respective sides in the latest struggle between Israel and Palestine being fought out at the ...

For a group of Soundgarden’s magnitude and cleverness, average is still pretty damn good. King Animal does not sully the Soundgarden le...

Congress is still talking about a “Grand Bargain” that “balances” far more spending cuts than tax increases. That is another way of saying t...

Back in 2010, self-styled deficit hawks — better described as deficit scolds — took over much of our political discourse. At a time of ma...

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), in highlighting his opposition to the letting the Bush tax cuts expire, said, “Raising taxes on small ...

In 2004, George W. Bush won 50.7% of the popular vote over Democrat John Kerry, and had a 286-251 edge in electoral votes. Many media outl...

Some credit for the passage of the Affordable Care Act goes to the Tea Party. Harry Reid would likely have lost his majority — and his sea...

On October 24 in Northwest Pakistan, two children were injured in a drone strike authorized by President Obama. Other kids have been kille...

When Hurricane Sandy destroyed swaths of the Atlantic coastline and darkened our largest city, the anti-government ideology of the tea par...

We need to re-establish the fundamental moral priority for the nation of the public or common good . Conservative Americans seem to love c...

The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a c...

Three debates have gone by, and to this date, neither a candidate for president or vice president has been asked about some of the biggest...