Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Matt Damon’s "Promised Land" Draws Ire of Fracking Industry
The Gus Van Sant film depicts a gas industry that uses cash bribes, hard sells and Machiavellian maneuvers to get its way.
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Longshore Struggle Brews on East Coast
It's been 35 years since the International Longshoremen's Association went out on strike, but membership is ready to pick up its picket signs.
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We’re Tumbling Over an Inequity Cliff
By shifting the definition of who is rich, the fiscal cliff deal passed by Congress extends many of the notions that have made the United States the most economically unfair it has been in half a century.
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UBS Libor Manipulation Merits a Death Penalty
A more emphatic message needs to be sent to UBS bank by its prudential regulator in the U.S.: You are finished in this country.
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Open Letter to the FBI, From a Former Houston Occupier
I’m not a terrorist or a criminal. I’m an American citizen nonviolently protesting the fact that corporations and banks can buy influence in Washington.
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Cost of Combating Climate Change Surges as World Delays
An agreement by almost 200 nations to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 will be far more costly than taking action now to tackle climate change.
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As the Foreclosure Crisis Drags On, So Does Flawed Government
We've been keeping a close watch on whether the government is keeping its promises about compensating victims of the foreclosure crisis, which just ended its sixth year.
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A Checkerboard Strategy to Keep Progressivism Alive
Progressives need to get off the defensive and get acquainted with the checkerboard of power and its possibilities.
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Shell Oil Rig Runs Aground in Alaska
Shell has lurched from one Arctic disaster to the next, displaying ineptitude every step of the way.
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Angelo Mozilo, Disgraced Countrywide CEO, Plays Dumb
As chief of Countrywide, Mozilo headed the single most corrupt subprime mortgage lender in America during the period preceding the crisis.
