Editorials The sleaze just keeps emerging from the corridors of power in the "world's greatest democracy"--and it's thoroughly bipartisan.
March 10, 2010 The protests against California's budget cuts planned for March 4 are an important milestone. The next question is how to build on that resistance.
March 4, 2010 The Obama administration went too far to the left, alienating America's "center-right" majority--that's the media's verdict. As usual, they got it wrong.
February 10, 2010 The failure of Barack Obama to accomplish anything that was expected of him is feeding demoralization and anger among his most enthusiastic supporters.
January 27, 2010 State and local governments are ramming through massive budget cuts that are wrecking lives--and the federal government is doing nothing.
January 12, 2010 Barack Obama motivated his decision to send 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan with a warmongering speech that recalled the worst of George W. Bush.
December 2, 2009 The Obama administration put bankers' bailouts and more spending on the Pentagon before coming to grips with unemployment.
November 18, 2009 The Democrats' proposal for a "public option" is so scaled back that it's barely public--and it can hardly be called much of an option.
November 3, 2009 The National Equality March was a powerful call for LGBT equality--and an inspiring glimpse of what futures struggles against injustice can be.
October 21, 2009 The National Equality March in Washington represents a renewal of the kind of activism that's needed on many other issues.
October 8, 2009 The leaders of the Group of 20 are meeting in Pittsburgh for an economic summit that will be an exercise in cheap political theater.
September 24, 2009 Barack Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan has parallels with a previous U.S. war that raise the question: Is this Obama's Vietnam?
September 8, 2009 Republicans and conservative Democrats are set to wreck health care reform--and Barack Obama is letting them.
August 24, 2009 If a famous African American academic can get hauled off to jail in minutes, what chance do working-class and poor African American men have?
August 12, 2009 There are increasing calls for a new economic stimulus package, but the Obama administration has a different message for victims of the crisis: Wait.
July 28, 2009 It's hard to imagine a world where the Republican Party wins elections again. But that depends on the performance of Barack Obama's Democrats.
July 13, 2009 The military officers and right-wing forces who ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya have longstanding ties to the U.S. government.
July 1, 2009 In the name of finding "middle ground," Barack Obama and the Democrats are making compromises that the health care industry can be happy with.
June 29, 2009 The health care industry is determined to strangle any proposal in Washington for real reform--and the Democrats are acting as accomplices.
June 17, 2009 The bankruptcy of General Motors marks the end of an era in which U.S. capitalism could claim to offer workers an "American dream" of rising living standards.
June 1, 2009 Everyone expects Dick Cheney to rationalize torture by the CIA and U.S. armed forces. But Barack Obama?
May 19, 2009 The strongest argument for socialism is the simplest--that capitalism is incapable of meeting the needs of the majority of people.
May 5, 2009 Whether the statistics show continued recession or a weak recovery, there's one economic fact no one can dispute--things are a lot worse for U.S. workers.
April 22, 2009 Calls to pull together in the face of the crisis can be heard at all levels of government. But it's workers who will be the ones to "share" the sacrifice.
April 9, 2009 Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's $1 trillion plan to bail out Wall Street with taxpayer money is an even bigger giveway than the Bush administration proposed.
March 23, 2009
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