The Nation

The new senator from Massachusetts has the savvy and guts to take on big (and ungrateful) finance. 

We all know the damage done by corporate money in politics. On January 19, we have the opportunity to do something about it.

Cases like that of Weldon Angelos, who was given a fifty-five-year sentence for selling marijuana, cry out for mercy. But calls for clemency have fallen on deaf ears.

Rarely has the McCarthyite smear of “anti-Semitism” been revealed to be so empty as in the case of Obama’s DoD nominee.

The Pentagon is intent on pursuing its own global version of the Second Amendment.

A decade after Illinois Governor George Ryan emptied death row and pardoned four innocent men who were tortured by police under Commander Jon Burge, the city of Chicago has not admitted to its collective crimes.

The track record of Obama's Treasury secretary nominee shows his financial incompetence and support for radical deregulation, leaving little hope that he will reign in Wall Street.

The upcoming Knesset elections mark the culmination of settler dominance over the country's politics.