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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Russia Pushes Back Against Monsanto
Russia’s premiere consumer rights organization has suspended both the importation and use of Monsanto’s GMO corn within the nation’s borders.
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How Lawmakers and Lobbyists Keep a Lock on the Private Prison Business
Of all the public services to be outsourced, incarceration -- where the state deprives a person of liberty and assumes responsibility for his or her mental and physical well-being -- should not be auctioned for campaign contributions.
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Questions Unlikely to be Answered by Tonight's Debate
President Obama: You have spoken eloquently of the need to reduce the influence of big money in politics...
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New York Attorney General's JP Morgan Lawsuit: Too Little, Too Late
This pre-election stunt suit is made up of old evidence and could have been filed years ago.
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How to Reduce Our Out-of-Control Prison Population
The following list represents a clear set of strategies for reducing our 2,300,000+ prison population without compromising public safety.
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Opinion: Progressives Must Move Beyond Occupy
The general public agreed with Occupy's basic message. But Occupy's inept organization managed to squander this strategic opportunity, and the movement is now actually impeding Progressives' outreach to the general public.
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A Prescription to Heal the Economy
We will not make progress in addressing either the jobs or deficit crisis unless we are prepared to take on the greed of Wall Street and big-money interests who want more and more for themselves at the expense of all Americans.
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How to Tax a Millionaire
French President François Hollande on Friday confronted the country's bankers, business leaders and wealth class with his bold announcement of a 75% "supertax" on the super rich to help cut the deficit.
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The Chicago Teachers Strike and the Privatization of a Generation
Those of us concerned with the future of the labor movement need to seriously begin looking at the changes this particular strike embodied—not only for schools, but for the economy itself.
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In Dead of Night, A Coup for the Investor Class
While Congress, the press and the public were kept in the dark, 600 corporate lobbyists gained access to the secretively negotiated text of the Trans Pacific Partnership — a free-trade agreement of epic scale that would grant supreme power to global corporations.
