MEDIA MATTERS Journalists Must Be Better Prepared In The Trump Era Sunday show hosts failed to sufficiently press Donald Trump’s...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images THE WEEK 1. Federal government blocks Dakota Access oil pipeline route The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said...

He made the company a punchbag during his anti-globalisation election crusade, and now takes credit for saving jobs. But how did it...

George Monboit, The Guardian Yes, Donald Trump’s politics are incoherent. But those who surround him know just what they want, and his...

BY MAX KUTNER ON 11/21/16 AT 9:59 AM – Newsweek Updated | Robert Mercer seemed uncomfortable. It was 2014, and the billionaire had just...

LINDA DAVIDSON/THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES The National Policy Institute, a think tank that promotes white nationalism, recently...

Charlie Sykes: “Having Discredited The Mainstream Media,” Conservatives Created A Right-Wing Media Landscape “That Bear No Resemblance To...

May 27, 2015 11:05 AM EDT ››› ERIC BOEHLERT Fox News has been on the air nearly two decades and some Beltway journalists are still...

In his speech on inequality earlier this month, President Obama proclaimed that the government could not be a bystander in the effort to...

Three days after Christmas, unemployment benefits end for 1.3 million people who have exhausted their state unemployment benefits, but...

The Huffington Post  |  By Alexandra Schuster Posted: 12/25/2013 1:25 pm EST  |  Updated: 12/25/2013 1:26 pm EST When working hard...

The introduction this week of the Strong Start for America’s Children Act by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representatives George Miller...

WASHINGTON — The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council is wading back into election issues, as it considers supporting a...

Seventy-five years ago, we were fortunate to have leaders who showed great courage and resilience, because opposition to the Fair Labor...

By Chris Kirkham: Huffington Post – October 22, 2013 From a glance at his background, one might assume that James F. Slattery would have...

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Eric Zuess; Investigative Historian – Posted 10/07/2013 This blog is the second part of a story chronicling the Koch brothers’ influence...

Starting in 2002, the Koch brothers, David and Charles, re-directed their foundations’ money away from the libertarian Cato Institute,...

September 26, 2013 by Lee Fang This story originally appeared at The Nation. To gain steam for his initiative to tie funding of the...

Occasionally, a single incident can characterize an entire era. Rosa Parks sits down near the front of a bus. Gary Cooper drops his badge...