Op-Ed

(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) European leaders earlier this month announced a plan that, on the face of it, was pure nonsense. …

An Occupy Los Angeles protester at the camp outside City Hall in Los Angeles, November 30, 2011. (Photo: Ted Soqui /- The New York Times) Imagine a …

On November 30, two million British workers walked off the job. High inflation, cuts to social services and a protracted period of wage stagnation will see the spending power …

You find yourself sitting at a big conference table in one of those trying-to-be-classy corporate hotel meeting rooms. There is a pad and pen in front of you. …

Chanukah was the first recorded national liberation struggle against Greek imperialism, and Christmas celebrates the birth of a hoped-for messiah to free the Jewish people from Roman imperialism. …

Sixty Minutes’ December 11, 2011 interview of President Obama included a claim by Obama that, unfortunately, did not lead the interviewer to ask the obvious, essential follow-up questions.

Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word …

The defining political issue of 2012 won’t be the government’s size. It will be who government is for. Americans have never much liked government. After all, …

Occupy Wall Street protesters, along with union workers, stage a demonstration on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York, Nov. 17, 2011. (Photo: Marcus Yam / …

Too many academics for too long have turned their backs on addressing important social issues.