Pervasive propaganda is doing great harm to one of the few solutions the people have to deal with their problems: government.

The Internal Revenue Service is not exactly an “independent agency,” as President Obama claimed.

To be a viable White House contender, you have to be within your party’s mainstream on public policy. He's not.

At the start of his second term, events pushed President Obama to choose between the living and the dead. He chose dead millionaires over elderly people living on Social Security. The wealthy were given a most generous reduction in the estate taxes to be collected when they die. Social Security beneficiaries were told to live with smaller benefit checks. Instead of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, Obama went the other way.

Calling drug addiction a “scourge in Kansas,” Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law a bill to test welfare and unemployment recipients suspected of using illegal drugs.

As GOP members of Congress seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they risk undermining outreach efforts among the law's biggest supporters.

Since last fall, Republicans have pretended to be more moderate - but their politics are harsher and more destructive than ever.

Obama reaching out to Republicans isn’t anything new. It’s just that he’s never made it work.

The president says he's determined to win back the House in 2014. If he fails, he may have his 2012 self to blame.

House Speaker John Boehner tweets that the Obama administration is spending $1.2 million “paying people to play video games.” That’s misleading. The government did pay $1.2 million for university research that includes the study of how video games can stimulate the cognitive abilities of seniors. A fraction of that cost went to compensate seniors who participated in the study, researchers say.

President Obama has embraced a series of proposals to advance gay causes in his second term, highlighting his changing views on gay rights.

Cuomo and Booker have been touted as contenders. Here's what experts say these politicians face.

Republicans, apparently convinced that they really are facing demographic doom, have been taking increasingly desperate measures to ensure their continued existence. Does this include an effort to moderate their views in order to win more votes? Don't be silly.

No. A viral email that makes those claims is bogus. It fabricates Ohio and Florida results. Also, Obama won four of the 11 states with photo ID laws.

Gun rights activists who cite the dictator as a reason against gun control have their history dangerously wrong.

The 113th Congress doesn't look any better.

As President Obama bargains with the GOP to avoid going over the “fiscal cliff,” GOP proposals remain the primary threat to low-income Americans.

GOP lawmakers fear the cyber order will pile new regulations onto companies that operate critical infrastructure.

A possible explanation for reports that the president is open to raising the qualification age from 65 to 67.

A fog of misinformation has settled on the fiscal cliff, as both House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have traded conflicting, misleading and false statements in recent days on the president’s deficit-reduction plan.

With the "fiscal cliff" looming, the conventional wisdom is that the president capitulated during the last tax-cut fight. Here's what really happened.

Republicans might have held the House, but Grover Norquist’s majority in Congress is all but gone.

Comments reflect broad fears within the party that it is cutting itself off from the fast-growing constituency.

Since October 17, the big GOP Superpacs appear to be outspending Priorities USA on media by at least three to one.

The Romney campaign is moving full steam ahead with a new radio ad that repeats a misleading debate claim by Romney that the size of the Navy’s fleet is the smallest it has been since 1917. The number of ships is actually up a bit since 2007 under President George W. Bush.

Romney's journey toward the presidency has been a marvel to behold.

A guide to how the multimillionaire twists the law to hide his massive fortune - and avoid paying his fair share in taxes.

Obama and Romney swap exaggerations and false claims in their first meeting.

Conservatives who point their fingers at him now should think of how they've behaved for the last four years.

Paul Ryan likened a mechanism to control health care spending to “death panels,” during a town hall at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Saturday.

President Barack Obama has been claiming that the United States has “doubled our use of renewable energy.” Not true. Wind and solar have doubled, but total renewable energy consumption is up by about one quarter from 2008 to 2011. Plus, since wind and solar started at such a low level, a doubling may not be as impressive to voters as it sounds.

It’s a veiled stimulus plan to bring back fossil-fuel jobs.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie largely avoided factual claims in a Republican convention keynote address that was heavy on generalities, opinion and platitudes. The pugnacious former prosecutor exaggerated a bit, though, when he bragged about his accomplishments as governor, and he repeated the common but false claim that the president’s health care law interferes with the doctor-patient relationship.

It’s just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what’s happening to poor people. Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision – “out of sight, out of mind.”

Strategists worry Ryan's elevation allows Democrats to successfully make his budget plan an issue in congressional races.

We've got a stark choice: do we improve the systems that have made us rich and powerful in the past? Or do we tear them down in the name of "freedom," and hope for the best?

The Obama campaign is out with another ad making the false claim that Mitt Romney “backed a bill that outlaws all abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.” Romney’s consistent position through this campaign, and the last, and as far back as 2005, is that he opposes abortion except in cases when the life of the mother is in danger, and in cases of rape and incest.

Some impressive reporting by the AP and others recently has shown that Romney retained ownership and corporate titles at Bain for a time after he took a hurried leave of absence on Feb. 11, 1999, to manage the 2002 Winter Olympics, However, no evidence so far to show that Romney was actually running Bain, even part-time and from a distance of nearly 2,100 miles, as the Obama campaign wishes voters to believe.

Don't believe the outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise.

GOPers vote to keep dark money in the shadows by blocking the DISCLOSE Act.

Democrats are still hammering an old, and since replaced, GOP proposal, claiming it  would “end Medicare,” and cost seniors $6,000 more a year for their health care.

Forget Twitter. Obama and Romney are debating policies and ideas—if you are willing to look.

A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history, due to delusional wars, reckless spending and inflexibility.

In a fundraising email, a conservative PAC claims President Barack Obama is raising natural gas prices to pay for failed green energy companies. But the letter offers only false claims and twisted facts to support this conspiracy theory.