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For more than twenty years, the people of Porto Alegre, Brazil have been directly determining how the city spends it's money. The process is called participatory budgeting and it …

The movement of ideas through the international system is a mysterious thing. Consider, for example, the circuitous journey of the "Global Feed-in Tariff": this is the idea of guaranteeing …

The legal battle over gay marriage in California continued today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, prompting the next chapter in what could be the …

Last week, I kicked President Obama squarely in the teeth for his decision to abdicate the economic argument to the GOP by wasting everyone's time with a freeze of …

President Obama announced on Monday that he had reached a deal with Republicans to extend tax cuts for all Americans, including the wealthiest two percent - backtracking on one …

More tax breaks for the rich in exchange for another year's worth of unemployment benefits for the desperate: Now there's a compromise that makes me proud to be an …

 

Washington - Ben Bernanke may or may not succeed in saving the economy, but at least he has the courage to try — and the honesty to tell the …

In this special comment, Professor Richard D. Wolff explains exactly why President Obama is not a socialist.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.…Whenever the people are well-informed, they can …