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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A New Middle-Class Squeeze
The ever-widening gap between rich and poor, by the numbers.
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The Careerists
The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They enforce the laws and the regulations. And they do not ask questions.
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Cronyism: The One Thing Occupy and the Tea Party Can Agree On
New research is trying to project where the core grievances of the Occupy and Tea Party movements intersect. Whether it's outrage targeted at big banks and corporations, or at the failure of government, scholars say one word joins the two: Cronyism.
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The Revolution Equation
Politics is possibility. Politics is ideas, and ideas are dangerous. When the sum of the people's political expectations exceeds their economic expectations, they are ripe for revolt.
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Lawyers and Food Groups File Federal Brief Against Monsanto
A coalition of high-level U.S. lawyers and nonprofit organizations are battling Monsanto at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals level.
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$21 Trillion Hidden Offshore by Global Elite
A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary $21 trillion of wealth offshore – as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together – according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network.
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College Attack on Big Coal is Gaining Steam
Big Coal and fossil fuel polluters give out out billions to college campuses. Now students are fighting back with a divestment campaign saying their universities aren't to be implicated in devastating corporate practices that foul our planet and our climate.
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Northern California is Moving Its Money
Last fall, thousands of Sonoma County residents switched their bank accounts to local lending institutions in a wave of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. But even as the "occupations" have ceased, interest in banking locally has not.
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Did the FBI Illegally Spy on Occupy?
The ACLU of Northern California and San Francisco Bay Guardian on Tuesday filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI to find out whether and to what extent the feds have been spying on members of the Occupy Movement.
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Why the 1% Needs Government More Than We Do
From providing physical security to deregulations, subsidies and paying the costs of ecological disaster, government is what enables the super wealthy to enrich themselves further - at everyone else's expense.
