Austerity

Election Day was held Tuesday, deciding state and local races across the country. In Virginia, former Democratic National Committee chair Terry McAuliffe was elected governor, defeating Tea Party-backed Ken …

Today, Ireland is under a different sort of tyranny, one imposed by the banks and the troika - the EU, ECB and IMF.

Updates on Goldman Sachs charity/PR, bank scandals, housing ‘recovery’ exposed, suicides rise in Kansas and a Benedictine Nun leading a new anti-austerity party in Catalonia.

The anti-cuts group recently mobilized a nationwide action called “Roadblocks for Justice” that focused specifically on cuts to legal aid.

The neoliberal prescriptions for Greek ‘recovery’ that only deepen its economic crisis reveal the anti-democratic assault on the welfare state and the breakdown of social Europe as the center …

By banning Golden Dawn, the ruling parties in Greece are distracting the public from their own involvement in the crime.

Paul Krugman: “It was, I suppose, predictable that Europe's austerians would claim vindication at the first hint of an economic upturn.”

A global war to resurrect a sense of

The Postal Service has survived ideological attacks so far but could serve society still more with intelligent expansion.

Susan Nussbaum's first novel, ‘Good Kings Bad Kings,’ portrays abuse endemic to contemporary nursing homes for children and youth with disabilities.