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The supercommittee's failure is producing a predictable rash of handwringing about America's broken democracy.

Proof that when laws to protect peoples’ democratic rights are put into practice, they can have a major impact on bringing more voices into the political process.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifying last week Talk about a waste of taxpayer dollars.

The existence of the U.S. middle class is in peril. Young people between the ages of 18 and 34 are living in a more fragile economic environment than 30 years ago. If something isn't done to help them lead more economically stable lives, they'll never make it into the middle class. That's the

Ok, it’s true. The Obama Administration did make an environmental decision based on politics and undue outside influence. But it’s not the one that you think.

A coalition of civil rights groups are preparing an amicus brief to defend the “No Representation Without Population Act” challenged in Fletcher v. Lamone. Maryland’s first-in-the-nation law requiring the state to count prisoners at their home addresses is protective of minority voting rights.

If libertarians had been calling the shots in Washington in the fall of 2008, the United States might now be in a second Great Depression.

Another day, another misleading and false attack on clean energy funded by Koch Industries, which makes billions of dollars from a variety of polluting industries.

A basic reason that people break rules is that they believe they can get away with it. And you're more likely to think that you can cheat without consequence if you know that watchdogs won't bark, much less bite. This observation doesn't just jive intuitively with our understanding of human nature

Public approval of Congress is now at its lowest level ever recorded by modern polling, so it's no surprise that Governor Rick Perry might find this branch of government a juicy target; Perry said yesterday that he favored cutting pay for members of Cong