Expect a bitter fight on the budget
Make no mistake: President Obama's job-creating and tax-the-rich budget proposals are going to be core battleground issues for the Republican right.
Demand Congress cut the military budget
Congressional Republicans are attempting to undo cuts to the military budget. You can take action.
Holiday message: The unemployed need you!
We would have liked to print a happy message in this space, filled with good news and wishes for all of you to have a fantastic holiday season.
Poverty is up and guess what? Corporate taxes are down
As the deadline for the Senate super committee draws nearer two new studies highlight what's at stake.
It’s a no-brainer: jobs not austerity
The Great Recession of 2008 is looking more like the Great Depression of the 1930s. The economic crisis of U.S. (and world) capitalism is entering its fourth year.
Higher health spending means healthy people
Some things that just seem obvious are often denied for devious political or personal reasons.
S&P "bond vigilantes" take aim - at us
Standard and Poor's is a "bond vigilante" for the "investor class" - essentially a finance capitalist business agent with a big economic machine gun.
A little debt-ceiling history, and a few suggestions
It was a double "hostage crisis": The right enforced party discipline on the whole GOP and then made the Democrats negotiate on its own terms.
Debt deal: Time for diplomacy is over
The Republicans are no ordinary opposition party with whom the Democrats can have amicable differences. They are racist, anti-labor, anti-democratic extremists, beholden to fascist-minded billionaires.
Poem of the week: "Allegiances" in troubled times
As if written for today's headlines, William Stafford's poem "Allegiances" reflects that we will have to take care of each other; we will be our own protection.
