Rick Miller is hardly the first Texas legislator to make a racist remark. The news here is that he was roundly and quickly abandoned by elected Republican leaders who usually disappear into their... Read more »

State Sen. Al Olszewski, R-Kalispell, served one term in the Montana House and two terms in the Montana Senate. Now he’s hoping to move into the governor’s office.  Olszewski, an orthopedic surgeon,... Read more »

If you look at his campaign missives, it’s clear that the state’s lieutenant governor — or maybe it’s his staff — can’t reconcile his math with his politics. Dan Patrick complains that spending... Read more »

HELENA — Wilmot Collins didn’t bother to rehash his story on Friday afternoon. Most of the Democratic convention delegates gathered in the Helena ballroom where he spoke, Collins noted with a smile, were... Read more »

In the recently concluded Indian parliamentary elections, the electorate gave a thumping majority to current Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to lead the nation for another... Read more »

Henry Giroux is Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Fascist politics... Read more »

He lost this battle, but Tom DeLay might have already won the war. The former U.S. House majority leader made national headlines on Thanksgiving after a jury convicted him Wednesday on money-laundering and conspiracy charges. (The... Read more »