This weekend, at a panel on the U.S./Mexico border in Marfa, Texas, GRITv friend, reporter Mark Danner discussed the "thinning out" and hard...

The other day on the show, Melissa Harris-Lacewell suggested media "need to be covering the left as much as we cover, with anxiety, the right." Anxie...

"Corporate interests are buying the elections? Oh no", Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, told the New York T...

The clash of civilizations continues, 9 years after the attacks of 9-11, the threat to our freedoms remains real. Shadowy individuals aim to control o...

Obama spoke to a labor crowd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday, calling for new energy investment, and new infrastructure. The word most people want t...

Better we come to grips with defeat than concede that a lawless operation in some way won and made the U.S. stronger. It didn't.

Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more...

The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million. It should be affecting all of us. A disaster o...

29 million unemployed or looking for work, that's the latest estimate, and you'd think it'd concentrate the mind in Washington. 29 million, or over 16...

The 14th amendment has done it again! No wonder right wing radicals want to repeal it.

Welcome to the recovery! That's what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in the New York Times this week. And such good news! We've all been w...

That's the question, as the Senate puts off a vote on $10 billion for state and local governments to prevent teacher layoffs. Senate leadership wanted the bill to be deficit neutral.

Congress agreed to pump an extra $33 billion into Afghanistan this week, even as a new report revealed that almost nine billion earmarked for the nation's other occupation -- Iraq -- went missing.

The passage of SB 1070 made it clear that the federal government had created a monster.

The House approved $33 billion for a 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan this week and in doing so took money away from other places it was desperately needed: public schools, green energy and job creation.

At the end of a long painful week, Shirley Sherrod's been offered a new job with the USDA's Office of Civil Rights and Community Outreach. She's still considering, though, and who can blame her?

How many times is the Obama administration going to roll over for Glenn Beck?

While deficit hawks obsess over spending, private security companies, private spies, and private armies rule the tax dollar roost.

Big money won't do "the right thing" because as far as they're concerned, they're doing it already. Capitalism's working well for them -- people are working harder, for less.

Nearly five years after Hurricane Katrina, six New Orleans police officers have been charged with federal civil rights violations for the shooting and killing of James Brissette and Ronald Madison.

The White House has pulled quite a bait and switch on the LGBT community. LGBT voters came out and contributed en masse to Barack Obama's campaign. A ...

So it's “the year of the women" in the media again. But again, it's only some. All about money media are all about the women of the GOP. It...

The U.S. is currently shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs each month. It's not just in the Ozarks that the recruiters are the only ones with jobs around: the economy shed 125,000 jobs in June.