The Republicans' intergalactic adventures
The GOP presidential candidates proffered a free-market fairy tale straight from their alternate universe.
Scab herding: corporate organized crime
One of the worst kinds of theft is stealing a person's job. You not only rob a person of their income, their sense of wellbeing, and their dignity, you also rob their family and children.
Obama in Detroit: A fighting Labor Day speech
President Obama is expected to outline a program for job creation through rebuilding the country's crumbling infrastructure.
Payroll tax, jobs and Social Security
One part of the jobs program that President Obama will be presenting this week is an extension of the payroll tax reduction. Some activists and economists are opposing an extension, claiming that it will undermine Social Security. What should be done?
The massacre at Ishaqi, Iraq
U.S. troops entered the house and killed the civilians before calling in the airstrikes. Autopsies showed all had been handcuffed and then shot.
The horror in Guatemala
We today should be as angry and indignant as if this had happened yesterday; if we are not, it could happen again.
Creationists, flat earthers and deficit hawks
It's worth asking how the proponents of deficit-reduction - be they congressional Republicans or "deficit hawks" within the Obama administration - think that lower deficits will lead to increased growth and job creation in an economy mired in a severe slump.
Drug industry sells misleading ads - to doctors
82 percent of the ads placed by drug companies in medical journals violate the Food and Drug Administration's regulations on truthfulness and risk disclosure.
A tip for Joe the machinist: Watch your back
A Labor Day reflection: Corporate America no longer even pays lip service to the importance of encouraging hard work and skill.
Rick Perry and the push for American theocracy
Recently there has been an increasing push to further inject a right-wing version of Christianity into the governance of the nation.
