At a time of upheaval, we want to believe that better leaders have the power to change the course of history. But counterfactuals are never simple.

Companies that run the electrical grid have long been accused of anti-competitive and abusive practices. Now a massive coalition of 235 organizations is pressuring the Federal Trade Commission to investigate them.

Global warming is introducing unprecedented risk into the financial system. The Fed has the power to limit that risk. Instead, Jerome Powell is sitting on his hands.

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

The conservative legal icon has a lot of disagreements with the Supreme Court’s decisions and is showing no hesitation in pushing to erase long-standing precedents.

Dwindling revenues from corporate taxes are beggaring the Treasury, and the GOP doesn’t care.

The party believed Doug Mastriano would be the easiest candidate to beat in November, so they followed the same risky strategy that backfired tremendously in 2016.

The Big Pharma–friendly congressman from Oregon’s 5th district is lagging Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Tuesday’s primary results. How big a bellwether is it for the left?

The resort’s real magic lies in the powers it’s afforded by a special district.

Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel may be the most important bulwark protecting Michiganders should Roe fall.

The government may be able to provide a quick fix to the deepening emergency. Solving the problem’s root cause will be substantially more difficult.

With poll numbers growing more dire by the day, the party needs to shake off its torpor and remind people what it stands for.

Maybe it’s a sign that he knows his botched war has diminished his power. But he did add one caveat to his assent.

The shooter’s manifesto makes clear, climate denial and ecofascism are two sides of the same right-wing coin.

Of course not. But that’s what they make as they profit from the inflation that’s hurting the middle class.

The GOP candidates vying for the Keystone State’s seat in the upper house are wildly out of the mainstream. That doesn’t mean Democrats can beat them.