Economy

Can Americans ever really take charge of their common community life, given the realities of the modern political economy?

Paul Krugman: When it comes to the GOP's ideas about privatizing basic public services, thereu2019s something pathological going on.

In the short-term Ryanu2019s cuts will lower the deficit. But in the long-term, those fewer investments will inflict serious harm on our nation.

Spanish and Portuguese workers are coordinating their strike with work stoppages underway in Greece, Italy, France and Belgium.

Itu2019s our job to apply pressure where it will move us toward shared prosperity, ecological balance and deep democracy.

As the White House begins a series of meetings today on the looming “fiscal cliff,” a coalition of the largest corporate firms and advocacy groups is lobbying for wide-ranging …

John Weeks: The fiscal cliff has simply been created by Congress in order to push austerity which is no solution during a recession.

It is exactly such policies that have brought us to our current economic predicament.

One analyst reads between the lines to decipher the future of entitlements.

Many economic conditions for resurgence of Occupy Wall Street or its reincarnation are in place.