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Think of it as a simple formula: if you’ve been hired (and paid handsomely) to protect what is, you’re going to be congenitally ill-equipped to imagine what might be.  …

Paul Krugman: Very few people have been willing to let the evidence speak.

With Obama's administration constantly shifting to the right, a stronger, grassroots movement of progressive politics is needed in 2013.

The ideological hard-heartedness permeating our countryu2019s political leadership hit public ed two years ago. There's much to learn from how it played out there.

Today, ‘scum villages’ for ‘antisocial tenants’ in Amsterdam. Perhaps tomorrow it will be containment camps for surplus labor in all capitalist economies.

The sun will rise on Thursday morning to shine down upon the end of the 112th Congress, the single most useless do-nothing assembly of fools and failures in …

For kids, communities can bring opportunities where none existed before.

With the filibuster intact, Republicans are really the only Party that can pass legislation in either body.

The wealthy who profit from economic decline and austerity promoted the so-called ‘fiscal cliff,’ but the way to reduce the deficit is to increase employment.

Just as Boehner has been under pressure from his right, Obama faces a virtual Tea Party of the left that sees his compromise as capitulation.