Op-Ed

Occupy Chicago March to Grant Park, November 5, 2011. (Photo: Michael Kappel) If you're part of the 1 percent, even getting fired comes with a cushion made …

Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint …

“You know I think it's fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms,” he told the “Today” show's Matt Lauer last week. "But the president has made this …

There are many schemes now for undoing the doctrines under which corporations claim constitutional rights and bribery is deemed constitutionally protected “speech.” Every single one of these schemes depends …

Any tax system that subjects rich people to high taxes is asking for trouble. Or so the politicians who cater to people of means incessantly argue. The higher the …

Historians invariably cite the sit-down strikes at the country's auto plants in the 1930s as a key to the spread of unionization throughout the automobile industry and throughout American …

Let's start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line, straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said of the …

Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, campaigning in New Hampshire in August 2011. (Photo: Cheryl Senter / The New York Times) Greg Sargent is rightly outraged …

A voter at a polling station at Parker-Varney School in Manchester, New Hampshire, January 10, 2012. (Photo: Nathaniel Brooks/The New York Times) Unification of the Tea Party …

“USA: We're No. 1!” Oh, wait — Iceland is No. 1. But we did beat out Poland and Slovakia, right? Uh...no. But go on down the rankings …