Economy

Paul Krugman: The clean little secret of the global economic crisis is that standard economic theory actually performed pretty well.

Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Government has to step in and correct the imbalances of low wages and unregulated financial markets or a deeper recession and crisis is inevitable.

Resistance to top-down education mandates is building.

Corporate control over medicine will make the horrors falsely attributed to socialized medicine look pale.

Do you think that student loan debt is only a problem for college students and perhaps their parents? Think again.

In today's On the News segment: Today Minnesota's governor will sign marriage equality bill passed into law yesterday, and more.

Paul Krugman: Austerity apologists claim that the pre-crisis peak isn't a realistic goal for Latvia.

Norman Solomon: We need to ask ourselves how the forces of corporate capitalism have gained so much power over government, to the extreme detriment of people who aren't rich.

Are you tired of yet another revelation of fraud in the food industry or the banks? Are you paying less attention to those stories? Are you getting numb, thinking …

We are the workers who are employed by private companies through federal contracts, concessions and leases. Yet, while our employers reap billions of dollars in profits from taxpayers every …