Our politics has changed a lot over the last 52 years, from July 28, 1965 to July 28, 2017.

Language is powerful. We have come to believe certain things about our government because we have been fed a steady diet of metaphors that embed scary images in our minds

Our lawmakers' arguments over raising the debt ceiling aren't just reckless - they're pointless. Congress should end its outdated budget control rules.

Back in 2008 Henry Paulson, the Treasury Secretary in the Bush administration, needed to put billions of dollars of the taxpayers money at risk to bail out the big banks. We as a nation have decided that we never want to do that again.

Congress finally got the message from the American people. And the message they received is clear: major political donors should have more money and more influence on politics.

The strength of any state is its people. To succeed and grow, a state needs its citizens to be engaged, both civically and economically.

When I was young, people knew what “our way of life” meant. And that’s what worries me.

In a previous blog we described “A Pledge to Return Control of the Government to the Citizens.” We now proceed to explore how such a tool could be utilized.

As a business owner with over 60 employees, who I have provided health care for since starting the company almost 25 years ago, I am perplexed, baffled, and bewildered as to what is behind this health care madness coming out of the House and Senate.

Senator Ron Johnson’s June 26 op-ed in the New York Times is fundamentally wrong about health insurance.

During every election cycle it seems that all anyone can talk about is the necessity for a dramatic change in the political system. Yet, each time a new Congress is sworn in, it seems to be more of the same.

Our government, to put it plainly, is not working properly. The public, with the economic scars to show for it, fully understands that our legislators are responding to big money, not their constituents.

The Congressional Budget Office released its forecast earlier this week on the Senate Republican Plan to dismantle Obamacare. It’s not pretty …

Since 2014 dozens more cities, states, and even entire businesses have embraced the $15 minimum wage. As the trend has become more popular, more and more studies are also being conducted to examine the effects of the wage raise on the city of Seattle. A lot of people are looking at Seattle and thinking about what will happen if the minimum wage is raised in their cities.

The outcome of yesterday’s special election in Georgia’s 6th congressional district proves one thing: Democrats can’t just spend their way into a seat.

I haven’t always been politically active. I spent most of my life working and helping raise my children, and I hated paying taxes just like most people. But two events in my life changed my attitude toward politics and taxes, and when I found Patriotic Millionaires I realized I had found a way to act on these new values.

We live in an increasingly polarized political landscape. More and more it seems that Americans are entrenched in their views, with little desire or ability to see things from other perspectives.

You can neither cut your way to prosperity nor grow your way out of inequality.

I’m an investor, researcher, and the great-grandson of the meatpacker Oscar Mayer. I’m deeply concerned by the extreme inequalities of income, wealth and opportunity that have opened up in U.S. society.

Our nation is, as it always is, trying to determine what the role of government should be.