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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Mortgage Catch Pushes Widows Into Foreclosure
Even as the housing market recovers, widows over the age of 50 whose husbands were holders of their mortgage are losing their homes to foreclosure.
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Letter From London: It Takes a Cabal of Willing Governments to Maintain Global Tax Havens
When corporations say what they do to shield profit from taxation is "legal," they're often right. And this is wrong.
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In Arizona, America's Largest Prison Corporation Helps Arrest Students
Recent events in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande show the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom.
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Nine CEOs Whose Greed is Destroying America
A gang of brazen CEOs has joined forces to promote economically disastrous and socially irresponsible austerity policies.
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How to Oust a Congressman, Part 3: The Grassroots Movement
Building a committed base of volunteers to make phone calls, knock on doors and deliver tailored information to voters is the third and final step to kick your Congressman out of office next election season.
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Pentagon to Double Size of Worldwide Spy Network
The U.S. military plans to send hundreds more spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan that will more than double the size of its espionage network.
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Why Austerity Economics Hurts Low-Wage Workers the Most
What does the drama in Washington over the “fiscal cliff” have to do with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Domino’s Pizza? Everything.
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L.A. Port Shut Down by Striking Workers
The largest terminal at the Port of Los Angeles and three terminals at the neighboring port of Long Beach remains shut down by striking clerical workers.
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We Need a Federal Law Banning Public Subsidies for Private Companies
What is supposed to be spending for the public's benefit in fact benefits only private corporations. And it should be outlawed.
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"No" To The Poor: A Poem
Our politicians so eager to pad their brochure, to show they're pro "whoever" - except American poor.
