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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D.C. School Closings Target Poor Black Students
Parents and activists are angry that planned school closings mostly affect neglected sections of the city.
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Corporate Gold on the Fiscal Cliff
Big money buys big influence, which is why the financiers of Wall Street never truly experience regime change.
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AIG and Ethics: The Corporatization of Public Higher Education
Like the insurance giant AIG, which has just funded a new Ethics Center at Sonoma State University, big corporations are pumping ill-earned money into public education across the U.S., threatening academic freedom and free speech.
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Spain's Rebellion Moves to Print
A radical new monthly magazine, La Marea, has just launched in Spain. Building on the social and political momentum of the 15M movement, the worker-owned cooperative is challenging the media establishment.
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How the Billionaire Class is Destroying Democracy
The billions in taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil, trillions in bailouts and bonuses for Wall Street banksters, and hundreds of billions for war profiteers are always accompanied by demands for more tax cuts at the top.
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False Bargain: Twenty Years On, Lessons from NAFTA
Eliminating tariffs and trade barriers, NAFTA opened the floodgates to an unrestricted movement of goods across borders. Twenty years later, can we learn from the mistakes?
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A Year After SOPA: The Next Five Battles for Internet Freedom
A year ago, millions of people flooded Congress with emails and phone calls demanding it drop the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. That battle was successful. Now, five big new fights loom on the horizon in 2013.
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"The Untouchables": How Obama Let the Bankers Get Away Free
A new PBS Frontline program, "The Untouchables," centers on the Obama justice department's failure to make a single arrest or prosecution of senior-level Wall Street bankers whose crimes and fraud took down the economy.
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Wildcat Winter: How the Walmart Labor Struggle is Going Global
The 2.1 million Walmart workers constitute the third-largest workforce in the world, following the U.S. Department of Defense and the People’s Liberation Army of China. And they are revolting.
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The Roadmap: Six Issues that America Needs to Solve
Here are a half dozen issues of primary importance to America's future that must be solved: Campaign Finance, the Revolving Door, the Consolidation of Media, Gerrymandering, Election Fraud and Open Debates.
