Op-Ed

The world-class boxer turned wrongfully accused prisoner, turned advocate for the rights of the unjustly incarcerated, has succumbed to cancer.

A living wage must mean a minimum wage that rises to meet the higher living standards of each new generation to be a living threshold, not a dead hand …

At long last, we have irrefutable proof that the one indispensable nation has been subsumed by a bona fide oligarchy.

We must admit that climate change is an unavoidable outcome of an unsustainable political-economy, and techno-fixes will not save us.

There's now a full-court press of the usual suspects claiming that the recovery in Britain proves that fiscal austerity isn't contractionary after all, that the International Monetary Fund had …

Raise the Capital Gains tax to 39 percent, where the earned income tax is. It's easy. Reagan actually did it - for one year.

Inequality is what has turned Washington into a protection racket for the 1 percent. It buys all those goodies from government: tax breaks, tax havens, loopholes, favors like carried …

One Tennessee new law proposes to bring back the electric chair should lethal injection drugs prove unavailable. The other would allow for criminal assault charges to be brought against …

Working towards the cure for Alzheimer's is truly noble, and on the surface seems benign and good-willed enough. However, one need neither be a pessimist to find this presentation …

By treating the needs of the people as holy, Jesus and his followers troubled religious and political elites conception of themselves.