Patti Smith. (Blondinrikard Fröberg/CC BY NC 2.0) Frankfurt—Patti Smith has electrified Europe over the past several weeks with a series of concerts that have been as politically bold as they have been musically rich. Touring to mark...

A patient is examined by a doctor at a community health center in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Johnny Clark)  Editor’s Note: Each week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column at the WashingtonPost.com. Read the full text of...

Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Lincoln Chafee launched his 2016 campaign with a perfect illustration of why it is so vitally important that the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency...

Republican Senator Ted Cruz. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) The case of King v. Burwell may have been the last legitimate chance to disable the Affordable Care Act. So the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in favor of the administration, with...

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) Dr. Jill Stein has some great ideas about how to create “deep system change, moving from the greed and exploitation of corporate capitalism to a human-centered...

Police remove a woman protesting the Trans-Pacific Partnership during a Senate hearing in January. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) The Senate narrowly invoked cloture on fast-track trade legislation Tuesday morning, setting up a final vote Wednesday...