Op-Ed

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 …

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.

The president won re-election promising to raise taxes on those earning more than $250,000. Now he's already capitulating.

The US has portrayed Guangcheng as a hero at the same time it hunts down Julian Assange for similar acts.

Given the amount of children who day every year from gun violence, the question remains, how much longer will we value firearms over lives?

After discovering an

Efforts to curb the consumption of water are getting great results and making expensive desalination plants obsolete.

A global crisis calls for global debt resistance and an embrace of direct democracy.