Yesterday was Super Tuesday, an important day for American democracy when citizens of one of the major parties headed to the polls to choose their standard-bearer. Republican voters should be excited about their favorite candidate, especially since so many in the party have been demanding new leadership and a new...

Last week I wrote about my experience checking out Occupy Wall Street in NY. Now, here is my colleague Sean Garren's report from Occupy K Street:

"A friend of mine, who worked with me during the '08 election period, was recently featured on MTV as one of the lead organizers...

On Thursday, 11/3 I went down to Liberty Square in New York to check out the Occupy Wall Street protest with my own eyes. It was a beautiful day, there had just been a public trial of Goldman Sachs complete with speeches by Cornel West and others, and spirits seemed...

Yesterday, lead negotiators on the DISCLOSE Act announced a special carve-out that would allow the NRA--one of the nation's largest and wealthiest political actors--to avoid election spending disclosure even while accepting corporate money.

The carve-out is clearly intended only for the NRA - it appears that only a...

Today, with its decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court rejected decades of precedent in declaring that corporations enjoy the same free speech rights as live citizens.

Thanks to the Roberts Court, mega-banks that are using billions of our bailout dollars for obscene bonuses can now use our...

Much of the debate surrounding the competing health care proposals surrounds the price tag -- whether we'll spend $1 trillion, or $800 billion or somewhere in between over ten years to rein in the worst insurance company abuses, "bend the cost curve" and provide millions of uninsured Americans with affordable...

The Supreme Court held a specially scheduled oral argument Wednesday to decide whether to overturn a century of laws prohibiting corporations from using their treasury funds to influence federal elections. Judging from the justices' questions and the tenor of the argument, this once-unthinkable outcome seems increasingly likely.

The case--Citizens United...

Here's to Barney Frank. Finally, someone stood up for common sense!

I think that we've all about had it with the right-wing extremists' behavior at the town halls this month. From the misinformation and lies to violence and vandalism, anti-reformers have tried to squash reasonable debate at these events.

You've...

Senator Charles Grassley is the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee and the chief Republican negotiator in efforts to produce a bipartisan health care bill. By now Huffington Post readers have seen that Sen. Grassley has jumped on the health care crazy bandwagon, endorsing the notion that his constituents...

I am submitting this post on behalf of Dan Smith, who I met through working with Brave New Foundation to address the housing crisis. Dan lost his home and is eager to fight back.

My name is Dan Smith, and I'm an electrician with IBEW Local 952...

We all know our economy is shedding jobs at a scary clip. President Obama's recovery package was a good start to get us back on track, but we need to do more.

And, of course, the recession has hit our most vulnerable populations hardest -- minorities, folks laid off from...

One every 13 seconds.

That's how many families are losing their homes to foreclosure. More than 8 million families are at risk.

And, this is no accident. In Brave New Foundation's provocative new film on the housing crisis, a California mortgage broker admits on tape that he was...

The progressive online community has added real value over the past few years--bringing progressives together in a common (if virtual) space, holding the mainstream media accountable, channeling money to candidates in a true grassroots fashion, etc.

But there's a limit to what we can do together online, to what we...