Is the United States doomed to keep making the same mistakes?

Possibly the single worst thing about it is the cynical way that its supporters want to use it to create an excuse to gut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. 

The priorities in Congress this week are clear: a $700 billion authorization for military spending in FY 2018, and a $1.5 trillion tax plan that bestows untold wealth upon the already jaw-droppingly wealthy.

If the Trump tax plan were an object, you can bet it would be gold-plated

It's easy to see what comes next: claiming pressure from the deepening debt that they themselves created, members of Congress will want massive cuts to programs that help the poor and middle class.

Today's Senate vote to require new congressional authorization for ongoing wars may have failed - but it still represents progress.

Corporations exist for only one reason: to maximize profits, not employment.

As of October 1, National Priorities Project (NPP) will join the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

The president's deeply disturbing tendency to glorify war has no place in determining our country's use of nuclear weapons. 

Proposals for U.S. military spending are starkly different. See how they stack up.