America was always supposed to be the country of presidents, not kings, where leaders are made, not born.

If the US worked harder to close corporate tax loopholes, we could use the resulting revenues to send every current American college student to school -- for free.

Our pattern of mass incarceration is a choice we've made, and we can change those choices

Make no mistake: budgets are moral documents.

This year, we’ll spend $7.5 billion to send Americans to federal prisons. This is not what safety looks like.

As if Citizens United weren’t enough, members of Congress are using the federal budget process to open the doors to more money in politics.

The Ryan tax plan would benefit the top 1% and severely hurt the poor. Here's what else it would do.

Puerto Rico is in crisis. What should the U.S. federal government do about it?

Over the past 10 days, both the House and Senate have held a series of votes on Pentagon spending. 

The Senate begins debating amendments to the NDAA this week. Learn how you can weigh in on one in particular.