After eight years we shouldn't be surprised -- but just when you thought it couldn't get worse, President Bush does it again. He's going to the Olympics so he doesn't offend the Chinese people.

Forget about the Communist regime's crackdown on human rights and labor activists -- he's ready and...

John McCain is going to talk about trade this week, just not in the United States, and not to U.S. workers. For some reason, McCain thinks Colombia is the best place to discuss this issue.

If McCain wants to know how the trade programs he has championed for the past...

You can practically smell the change in the air these days.

Take trade, for example. For the past 15 years, American workers watched helplessly as millions of their jobs moved overseas.

But it's 2008 now. And Congress is looking at a new trade proposal: the TRADE Act.

The last time voters had a chance to send the country in a new direction it didn't work out so well. With the economy in shambles, a continuing jobs exodus and a president who remains shamelessly ignorant to the woes of working families, George Bush led us down the wrong...

Here's yet another reason Americans should be furious at the Bush administration: spending taxpayer dollars without constitutional authority.

Late last year, lawmakers passed the omnibus budget. President Bush signed it into law on Dec. 26. The law prohibited spending on a Transportation Department pilot program to open the borders...

George Washington, protectionist, made it a point to wear an American-made suit to his first inauguration.

The father of our country understood that America has to protect its ability to make things important to Americans. Today that means things like steel. Brake drums. Airplane parts. Computer chips. Battleships. Safe...

Mary Peters, who pushes tirelessly to let dangerous Mexican trucks use U.S. highways, for the first time publicly stood near a Mexican truck on Wednesday.

Peters is the little-known Arizonan who now runs the U.S. Department of Transportation. She usually avoids the news media like a bad rash whenever...

If Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre undermined democracy, so do George Bush's Friday Night Document Dumps.

Nixon's Watergate-era firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resignations of his attorney general and deputy was viewed as a gross abuse of presidential power.

Bush habitually makes controversial announcements on...

Love was definitely in the air when Vice President Dick Cheney delivered his Valentine's Day speech Wednesday to the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). Only in the sappiest romantic comedies could one find more exchanges of praise and affection than those between Cheney (who appropriately donned a pink tie) and...

The Nov. 7 election is finally upon us. Every election since 2000 has been extremely important, and this one is no different. We live in a time where razor-thin margins determine victories. Unfortunately, along with close races, voter suppression efforts have become more widespread.

That's why the Teamsters...

Americans fortunate enough to receive raises this year can consider that money already spent. Millions of Americans know where the extra money will go--straight into rising health care costs.

A new study by the nonprofit group Families USA found that, on average, nationwide health care premiums have risen...

While much attention has been paid this electoral season to Santorum, Lieberman, DeWine and others, Michigan voters have an important choice before them. Gov. Jennifer Granholm has been a loyal friend to working families in the state since she took office and is the only candidate guaranteed to always put...

For those of you fortunate enough to have a long Labor Day weekend, go to your barbecues, your sales at the mall and enjoy yourself. But do me a favor - take a few minutes to think about why you get a Labor Day holiday and reflect on everything George...

The nation was in an uproar earlier this year over the revelation that Dubai Ports World had been given the go-ahead to take over the operations of several U.S. ports. From Main Street to Capitol Hill, Americans made it clear that they did not want to hand over control...

China's president, Hu Jintao, wanted his Bush White House visit to be a show of respect. He wanted it to be a full state visit. But in reality, China already has everything it wants. The Chinese are getting all the oil they want. They're expanding their military capacity to the...

As the debate about immigration reform rages on, we have to remember what this issue is not about. It's not about race. It's not about fear. Instead, it's about making sure that all workers -- including immigrants -- are empowered to stand up for their basic workplace rights.

There's...

In 1943, the United States War Production Commission wanted to highlight the important role that the domestic workforce was playing in our nation's war effort.

It commissioned artist J. Howard Miller to design a poster illustrating the direct contribution that service on the factory line made to service...

The ports takeover by a state-owned company in Dubai is the perfect example of why concern for people--and not profits--should dictate policy when it comes to homeland security.

I realize that is a lot to ask of this administration.

Our ports are already a national security nightmare, and outsourcing control...

The exploding Abramoff scandal and its exposure of the hand-in-glove relationship between Congress and K Street has plunged both sides of the legislative sausage factory into the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

After trying their best to deal with the situation using Denial and...

It was the deadliest train crash in nearly 30 years, spewing a poisonous cloud of chlorine gas over the small community of Graniteville, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, hundreds sickened and thousands forced from their homes after the chlorine seeped from the mangled tank car, mixing with oxygen and...