Op-Ed

We think we're in the 21st century, but all the signs suggest we're living in an earlier and harsher era.

This month's battles over the budget and the Tea Party Republicans' fanaticism about the health care law obscure the two parties' common commitment to austerity.

Sam Pizzigati: Today, more than ever, we need to refocus the federal ‘tax and spend’ debate - from deficits to inequality.

Noam Chomsky: Is the president veering toward isolationism? Or will he proudly carry the banner of exceptionalism?

Intervention - radical struggle - seeks human happiness, tranquility, liberation. While the threats aligned today against the realization of these ends are considerable, it is clear humanity is capable …

Looking past the shutdown and budget battle, the big picture is that America's four decade-long drift to the right is decisively over.

Despite the reality that domestic government surveillance is the one of the most unnecessary programs, the NSAu2019s surveillance programs are exempt from a government shutdown.

They've done it. A mere thirty Republican Tea Party extremists have managed to shut down the U.S. government, potentially tanking a national economy that's already on life support. Ironically …

The larger picture of the U.S. government's slowdown (incorrectly labeled “shutdown”) is a struggle over a centralized and incoherent bureaucracy that continues to seize trillions of dollars more than …

Many people in America believe that people's success in life is based on the individual, and that if you do not have any success in life, there is no …