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How would you spend $700 billion? Congress has to decide this month. One simple solution would be for Congress to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for households with incomes …

America’s heroes? Not so much. Not anymore. Not when they’re dead, anyway.

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 …