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By a vote of 55-44 the Indiana state House yesterday approved a so-called “right-to-work” bill, just two days after it was approved by the state Senate. Governor Mitch Daniels is expected to sign it into law, making Indiana the 23rd state in the nation to adopt the union-busting legislation, and the first since 2001. Indiana state House Democrats …

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In response to outrage over proposed salary increases for Cal State University Presidents, the California State University Board of Trustees unanimously approved a cap on top-level salaries yesterday during a meeting attended by students and faculty in Long Beach. As California’s education system faces one of the worst economic crises in its history, the cap will limit …

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US-Pakistan relations continue to remain strained in the wake of a US strike on the border with Afghanistan which killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers and wounded more than a dozen. The military’s initial reaction included blocking about 50% of all goods from reaching US and NATO troops in Afghanistan through Pakistan, and expelling Americans from CIA bases in …

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Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies. This week on Uprising I’ll take a close look at Joe Buscaino the newest City Councilmember for the city of Los Angeles.

Council District 15, which includes San Pedro and the Port of Los Angeles, was previously represented by …

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In his third State of the Union speech last night President Obama articulated a vision for an improved economy, seeking to reclaim control over the Republican narrative that places blame for high unemployment solely at his feet. In an address that Reuters called populist, the President promoted In his third State of the Union speech last night President …

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We turn back today to Glenn L. Carle, a man who spent 23 years in the CIA as a spy and tells the story of how he struggled with the Bush administration’s embracing of detention, interrogation, and torture of thousands of Muslim men, in a new book focused on one man, code-named CAPTUS. Carle held firm to …

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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians are demonstrating in the streets today to mark the one year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian Revolution that ended the 3 decade reign of Hosni Mubarak just over two weeks later. In the past 12 months Egyptians have continued to demonstrate for change in massive numbers against what they see as …

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In a decision announced yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that GPS tracking devices placed on vehicles by law enforcement during surveillance operations must be treated as a type of search, regulated under the 4th amendment. In the case United States v Jones, FBI agents kept Washington DC nightclub owner Antoine Jones under surveillance for months, watching …

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Following up from a fascinating interview yesterday, we turned back to Glenn L. Carle who spent 23 years in the CIA as a spy. Carle held firm to his belief in his agency until he was called on to become an interrogator, assigned to squeeze intelligence from a man believed to be a high-level al-Qa’ida terrorist. As …

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The Obama administration on Friday upheld a requirement for health insurers to cover contraception. The announcement was made in response to a request by the Roman Catholic Church seeking an exemption to the requirement, for insured employees of Catholic schools, hospitals, churches and more. The government has given the church an extra year to comply but Archbishop Timothy …