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Gerald Epstein: The money thrown at corporations by states to invite investment is a boondoggle that should be ended by federal law.

David Vine decided to make sense of what garrisoning the planet means to our pocketbooks.

The Progressive Caucus has laid down these six principles for tax reform.

There's more to Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge than ideology or principle - it's also about Norquist's efforts keep taxes low for his donor base of billionaires.

Strike fever isn't just for Walmart workers anymore.

Residents are losing sleep - and more - in the shadow of the fracking rigs.

States loosen marijuana laws but the federal government's continued prohibition means a boom in marijuana smuggling, drug-war violence and mass criminalization. Is it time to change direction?

Both Republican and Democratic plans for the economy leave the system that produced this crisis and will produce more crises unchanged. There IS an alternative, argues economist Rick Wolff.

Students at one of the last free universities in the US rebel against Cooper Union's plans to start charging tuition, and more.

Education is a recession-proof industry that will always be in high demand, but the rush to privatize it could destroy public schools and take the middle class down with …