Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Occupy Big Gun
The country's biggest gun manufacturers are all but unknown to the American public. That's not an accident.
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Freedom Of The Press Foundation Launches To Support WikiLeaks, Increase Transparency
A group of journalists and press freedom activists have launched the Freedom of the Press Foundation as a way to crowdsource funding for WikiLeaks.
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Bahrain Is Quietly Becoming One Of The Arab Spring's Most Violent Uprisings
Following a series of brutal government crackdowns, young protesters who say they have little choice are taking a more militant approach.
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"Did We Just Kill A Kid?" The Six Words That Ended a U.S. Drone Pilot's Career
A troubling look into drone warfare.
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CONFIRMED: U.S. Counterterrorism Agency Can Amass Data On Any Citizen
The National Counterterrorism Center can now copy and examine entire government databases to predict the criminal behavior of any U.S. citizen.
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Why We Need Unions
As current labor strikes across the country demonstrate, Americans are increasingly unwilling to take economic inequality in stride, and want justice.
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Report Finds Harsh CIA Interrogations Ineffective
The Senate intelligence committee approved a long-awaited report Thursday concluding that harsh interrogation measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs.
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The Hemorrhaging of America: From Charles Whitman in Austin to Adam Lanza in Newton
As long as Americans can buy guns legally and fairly easily over the counter, Americans will kill other Americans and kill themselves, too.
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Millionaires Back Raising the Estate Tax
More than 30 of the wealthiest Americans have signed a letter to Congress and the Obama administration arguing that the estate tax should be raised, not lowered.
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Big Money, ALEC and the Gun Agenda
Numerous bills to impede laws that would help protect Americans from gun violence were drafted by the NRA and adopted by ALEC corporations and legislators.
