Al Franken is not known for being timid or for shying away from bold statements. His last political satire, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, savaged the right-wing talk show ...

With just seven state ballot propositions this Nov. 8, voters are spared sorting through the 20-plus initiatives put before them in some past elections. Here are my recommendations. Proposition 1 ...

Some thoughts on the People’s Assembly. Dissecting its claims to be the birth of a movement and looking at what is really required to take on austerity and, more broadly, capitalism. On 22 June, ...