Economy

With help from the government, a very friendly tax code, and their own coffer-powered influence, big American companies have emerged from the recession flush with cash, less burdened by …

Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. The Occupy movement was widely lampooned by critics for failing to bring forward a coherent …

Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Under growing public pressure and the departure of multiple corporate members, the American Legislative Exchange …

(Photo: David Shankbone / Flickr)When Occupy Wall Street protesters decided to take up sleeping on the sidewalks of Wall Street, they did so with the protection—they thought—of the law. Specifically, a …

For all the shameful sucking up to multimillionaire mom Ann Romney after Democratic pundit Hilary Rosen accused her of never having worked “a day in her life,” the reality …

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times)During comments overheard by an NBC news reporter, Mitt Romney told a crowd at a private fundraiser last …

At least 30 bills have been introduced in the Missouri statehouse in recent years that are nearly identical to legislation originally written by a conservative organization whose membership includes …

Washington - The “Buffett Rule’’ — the Democratic-authored effort to impose a minimum tax on millionaires — is probably dead for awhile, fatally wounded by a largely partisan Senate …

Over the past several years, few annual occasions have been more symbolic of the direction of political discussion in our country than Tax Day. This year, the IRS due …

Washington is lost in a snarl of confusion, cowardice and wrongheaded ideological assumptions that threaten to keep the economy in a ditch for a long time. That prospect is …