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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Big Banks' Mortgage Fraud Payments Will Be Tax-Deductible
Some or all of the big banks' payments for mortgage abuse will actually be a corporate windfall, as the banks can claim them as business expenses. Taxpayers, therefore, will likely lighten the banks’ loads.
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8,000 New York City School Bus Drivers Go On Strike
Yellow buses, which the city is threatening to privatize, will stay off the streets Wednesday in a dispute that pits austerity city budgeting against demands for basic job security.
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Enbridge Tar Sands Hearings Interrupted by Activists
A day after 1,000 protesters forced their way past police lines in Vancouver, an action group intervened Tuesday in company discussions over tar sands developments, calling the hearing a "climate crime scene."
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Welcome to Blockadia!
A vast but interwoven web of campaigns are building a unified front in Oklahoma and Texas, where people are standing up against the fossil fuel industry and demanding an end to the development of tar sands pipelines.
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Major Companies Push the Limits of a Tax Break
The practice of exchanging one asset for another without incurring taxes has spread to everyone from commercial real estate developers and art collectors to major corporations.
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Longshoremen Dig in as Strike on East Coast Ports Looms
The threat of a strike by the International Longshoremen's Union, which would be the first on the East Coast since 1977, has sent shockwaves through the big business community.
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Can the Occupy Movement and Organized Labor Strengthen Ties in 2013?
With its emphasis on direct democracy, spontaneity and flexibility of tactics – unbounded by union hierarchies or legal impediments such as the Taft-Hartley Act – Occupy has infused the labor movement with a fresh dose of radicalism.
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Aaron Swartz and the New Communists
Aaron Swartz was not pursued by MIT, the university from which he supposedly "stole," nor by JSTOR, the organization whose files he supposedly "stole." He was pursued by the federal government "because they needed to make an example."
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The Death of Aaron Swartz and the New Hacker Crackdown
The first hacker crackdown shook the early internet to its core and helped mobilize political geeks. Today we're in the midst of a new crackdown.
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Techtivist Report: Obama Launches Global Assault on the Cloud
U.S. intelligence agencies have been given carte blanche to monitor activists, journalists, politicians and others across Europe and elsewhere following an amendment to a spy law that legalizes “heavy-calibre mass-surveillance” of Cloud data.
