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While Republicans resist any attempt to address growing income inequality, more and more of America’s wealthy are asking to pay their fair share. Joining billionaire Warren Buffet, Microsoft founder …

(Photo: photologue_np / Flickr) There is no reason to expect much of a drop in unemployment anytime soon. The economy added just 80,000 jobs in …

It was only 2005 — not all that long ago — that Zine Ben Ali won his third term as Tunisia’s president with 99 percent of the vote. At …

(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Ryan Avent, the economics writer at The Economist, and I have been corresponding about the role of the …

Between January and June of 2011, the United States carried out more than 46,000 deportations of the parents of U.S.-citizen children, according to previously unreleased federal data obtained by …

Comments Prepared for Delivery Public Citizen 40th Gala Washington, DC October20, 2011 I am honored to share this occasion with you. No …

Robert Rubin. (Photo: Center for American Progress / Flickr) Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money, and the fact that …

(Photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council) Rick Steiner is currently in the middle of a legal battle with Exxon Mobil Corp. over the …

Washington - Democrats on Thursday ratcheted up efforts to combat new voting laws adopted by 13 states that Democrats contend are deliberate efforts to keep its core voting blocs …

One of the tactics the 99 Percenters are using to take back the country from the 1 percent is to move their money from big banks to credit unions, …