Mitt Romney's Mexican roots
If the nation were to deny the children of immigrants birthright citizenship, as some GOP legislators believe we should, could Mitt be deported?
Wall Street doesn’t know what “enough” means
As the lords of finance are showing us, in the present era of capitalist development even small victories on the progressive side of the ledger are never secure.
Will Obama meetings on immigration reform bear fruit?
The meetings were apparently a response to pressure on the administration to back off of its aggressive immigration enforcement efforts.
GOP strategy: limit voting rights
In 33 Republican-governed states, new laws have been proposed or enacted that make voter laws much stricter.
Texas legislature offers grim solutions
There's cheerful news, sort of, for those frustrated Texans who have completely given up.
Budget in context
What's the budget debate about? Obama put the question of "how to balance the budget" in the context of "what kind of country will we be?"
Obama, Trump and the new racism of the right
From Oklahoma's Sally Kern to Donald Trump, it would appear that the party of Lincoln has become the party of John Wilkes Booth.
GOP budget would shift the country sharply to the right
President Obama got it right when he said the Republican Party's goal is about "changing the basic social compact in America." Politics, however, does not begin at the top.
Republicans reverse Robin Hood
The famed Robin Hood and his men fought to take from the rich to help the poor. Today we see the top 2 percent, the rich capitalist class, doing the opposite.
