People before Profits: Sound bites about jobs
The Republicans are fond of saying that small business creates 70 percent of all jobs. They don't tell you that small business is also responsible for 70 percent of all layoffs. That's the nature of small business. They start up and go out of business all the time.
Recession slams Black and Latino families
Newly released data reveals that racially-based economic inequalities may be at their worst levels since the 1990s.
Sitting out the elections? Think again
Shoot yourself in the foot if you like, but don't do it on Nov. 2 because the buckshot will hit the rest of us!
Status quo is unsustainable, and dangerous
We need a new vision to block the reactionary juggernaut led and funded by leading sections of finance capital, energy, defense and agribusiness.
Alaska tea party candidate: a study in contradictions
Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller of Alaska has stirred up controversy recently. He is the Tea Party favorite, Palin backed, and it's no surprise that he believes everything the federal government provides is negative.
Cutting Social Security — where does your congressperson stand?
There is a pledge to protect Social Security that has already been endorsed by more then 100 members of Congress. Where does yours stand?
Breaking free from domestic violence
October is domestic violence awareness month. Domestic violence affects two million women in the United States each year.
Working class film legends offer new Iraq thriller
Director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty were invited to attend the Toronto Festival this year to promote their new collaborative work, "Route Irish," and Laverty's own film "Even the Rain."
Reform, the mid-term elections and the fight for power
If we don't objectively understand our - and our enemies' - strengths and weaknesses, how can we understand which terrain of struggle is most conducive to victory or defeat?
Times Square bomber trial shows Constitution still works
The trial of Faisal Shahzad shows military tribunals are not only harmful but unnecessary.
