The YES Men have done it again -- only this time with a new level of smarts and pizazz.

Last week, they printed over a million copies of a spoof issue of The New York Times and distributed them around the country. What made the...

Now that the votes are counted and the post-election celebrations are winding down, are you waiting for a phone call from the hiring office of the President-elect?

Wait no more.

The thousands of people appointed throughout the Executive Branch set policies in everything from regulation of genetically modified plants and...

President-elect Barack Obama was right when he said in his election night speech that the victory was not all about him, but his leadership was extraordinary. He ran a campaign of high integrity, focusing on issues that really mattered, showing he could lead the whole country forward -- not pandering,...

My friend Rachel Bagby sent me a link to Vote Kindly. I love their goal:

"Join us in preparing now to be a kind presence at your local polling places on Nov. 4 by practicing ways to transform potential turbulence -- prompted by record-breaking voter turn-out...

Are you worried that we will wake up November 5th to find that, once again, election results in key races are in question? Here's what you can do.

These recommendations compiled by my colleages at YES! Magazine are simple ways you can protect your own vote and...

The Institute for Southern Studies reports voters are waiting in line for hours in early voting in Florida (fortunately, Governor Charlie Crist has extended voting hours).

The NAACP has sued the state of Virginia in an effort to get additional voting machines and longer...

Don't be fooled by all the accusations about ACORN. The real voting scandal is the voter suppression methods that likely swayed election results in 2000 and 2004, and are in process again.

Most of the news has focused on John McCain's accusations that ACORN is perpetrating a...

The World Bank and IMF held their annual meeting in Washington, DC, this weekend, and of course the global economic meltdown was on everyone's minds. John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, sent this fascinating report from inside:

I just came from a surreal scene at...

The American people stood up, and the bailout package went down.

Like other moments in U.S. history when the robber barons or the big banks went too far, the American people reined them in this week, refusing to hand over billions of dollars that would put themselves and their children...

You've probably been there. It's a family gathering, maybe Thanksgiving or a wedding, and someone starts a political conversation that is as ill-informed and jargon-filled as Fox News. You hear assumptions about the world that are so alien, you wonder if you're living on the same planet. There seems to...

Two weeks ago, I was alarmed to learn that congressional Democrats were sponsoring Resolution 362, which encourages what amounts to an act of war against Iran.

Today, there are more than 200 co-sponsors of the House resolution, but there is also growing mobilization to stop passage of Res....

It doesn't have to be this way. A video of a woman dying in a Brooklyn hospital waiting room after nearly 24 hours waiting for treatment is just one more heartbreaking piece of evidence that our health care system is not only broken, it has become a hazard.

Few...

Until recently, the power struggle within the Bush administration over whether to attack Iran seemed to be going badly for the hawks. Their disastrous record in Iraq coupled with flimsy arguments for attacking Iran meant they were gaining little support. But now it appears congressional Democrats may be riding to...

Proposals by presidential hopeful John McCain and Florida Governor Charlie Crist to drill for oil offshore is the wrong direction for the United States, and most Americans know it.

We have only a short time to make a turnaround on climate change or the weather disasters we've seen in...