Op-Ed

Earlier this year I wrote about a paper by Suzanne Mettler that included a survey showing that a large proportion of beneficiaries of government programs insist that they have …

The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public discourse, faces a critical juncture. As many of the …

Mea culpa, I misspoke, my bad — I stand corrected. In past commentaries, I have called Newt Gingrich a lobbyist. Apparently, he hates that tag, even though …

Occupy Wall Street protesters march in Brooklyn, December 6, 2011. (Photo: bogieharmond) And now it is winter. Wall Street rejoices, hoping that the change of seasons will …

With the explosion of Occupy Wall Street protests, many people have begun to wonder whether this movement will have a lasting impact, and, if so, what political changes it …

The Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War is serious about getting George W. Bush and Tony L. Blair arrested and prosecuted, after the milestone verdict of the Kuala Lumpur …

On Saturday, December 3rd – while most of the U.S. media was focused on the political demise of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and the growing financial meltdown in …

Frank Luntz speaking at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Progressives had some fun last week with Frank Luntz, who told …

The President’s speech today in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in …

Scarcely one-third of the U.S. population believes that there is a scientific consensus on the threat of global warming.