Op-Ed

Back in the late 1980s, when I lived in a little town in rural Upstate New York called Spencer, I joined the local library board, eventually ending up through …

For most people the "American Dream" is to be in the middle class, or to raise yourself up to be in the middle class. And people used to expect …

In this time of budget crises we are hearing increasing calls to tax the rich. Working people paying the cost of our wars with both their lives and their …

Martin Luther King Jr. on the march to Montgomery, 1965. (Photo: Eliel) “It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation …

Libya's leader Col. Moammar Qaddafi shakes hands with supporters upon arrival at a tent-like convention hall on the grounds of the Rixos Al Nasr Tripoli Hotel before presiding over …

Washington - So far, our nation's budget debate has been a desultory affair focused on whether a small slice of the federal government's outlays should be cut by $33 …

Globalization's "efficiency' is nothing but a cross-your-fingers fantasy. The corporate chieftains who've relentlessly pushed American factories and middle-class jobs offshore rationalize this globalization of production by declaring …

The recent report that America’s most segregated cities are just as — if not more — segregated than they were a couple of decades ago is hardly a revelation. …

President Barack Obama meets with Democratic Governors in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Feb. 25, 2011, to discuss ways Washington and states can work together to grow the economy …

Senator Jim DeMint speaking at Steve King's Conservative Policies conference in Des Moines, Iowa. The Republican senator told ThinkProgress that he "doesn't believe collective bargaining has any place in …