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During the two years Joe Sacco and I reported from the poorest pockets of the United States, areas that have been sacrificed before the altar of unfettered and unregulated …

Gladwell has carried water for the health insurance companies in his articles, while getting paid for numerous speaking engagements to the industry.

New proposals to broaden the ownership of wealth are increasingly commonplace - and given the growing discontent, appear all but certain to continue to grow in number and refinement.

Memphis segregationists feared the civil rights leader for the most interesting of reasons - a moral man can't be corrupted or hustled.

Sibel Edmonds is a former language specialist for the FBI, where she reported serious acts of security breaches and cover-ups - for which she was retaliated against and ultimately …

What if the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion were veterans lost on the yellow brick road home from war?

The old assumption that the United States would move inevitably in the direction of ever greater equality now appears strange, even unreal.

In that spirit, allow me to offer up my own devilu2019s dictionary of contempou00adrary American political terms.

Political-economic systems come and go over time, and the current American system is probably not the be-all and end-all of world development.

Obama is at heart a calculating pragmatist, especially when it comes to advancing his own ambitions. Many of his broken promises are due to his distaste for defeat.