Op-Ed

(Photo: _Pek_) It is brutally hard to be a Christian in America these days. Yeah, I said it. It's true. I'm a Christian. I was born and baptized, and …

Recently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms, as well as car bombs, the Pentagon …

(Image: Helen Cox) America is once again in crisis! All three branches of its government and its major political parties are controlled by a plutocracy composed of large corporations …

Paul Ryan is the chair­man of the House Budge­t Commi­ttee. (Photo: Luke Sharr­ett / The New York Times­) One impression Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget …

BILL MOYERS: Welcome. Imagine if you turned on your TV set someday soon and were greeted by this: SESAME STREET CHARACTER #1: HI! Welcome to Sesame Street! SESAME STREET …

The corporate propensity for rationalizing the irrational in the pursuit of profit appears to be boundless. Consider J.R. Simplot, a giant agribusiness conglomerate whose phosphate mining operations in Idaho …

The JOBS Act is insane on many levels. It creates an extraordinarily criminogenic environment in which securities fraud will become even more out of control. One of the forms …

On Thursday, Rep. Paul Ryan strayed from the current Republican mantra when he said he “respectfully disagrees” with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). What Ryan disagrees with is …

Washington - We are about to have the worst presidential campaign money can buy. The Supreme Court's dreadful Citizens United decision and a somnolent Federal Election Commission will allow …

(Photo: Daniel Valle) Gradually it's dawned on me: We humans are creatures of the mind. We perceive the world according to our core, often unacknowledged, assumptions. They determine, literally, …