If you apply Obama topically, he cures cancer. He can walk on water and split oceans to lead the people to their freedom...I mean, really - does it ever end?
We already have plenty of "bipartisanship" - Republicans and a faction of Democrats who regularly join hands to screw over the vast majority of Americans.
We cannot simply educate our way out of the problems associated with a globalization policy whereby our economy is regulated exclusively to enhance multinational corporate profits.
Americans shouldn't fear more unionization, they should fear a country that does not have unions fighting to better our nation.
Very often Democrats have their eyes first and foremost on media and financial elites, to the exclusion of grassroots organizations and the public at large.
Everyone in Washington - Republicans, Democrats, government commissions - everyone is throwing a giant party to celebrate just how totally awesome selling out really is.
Card check legislation should be a given - it should be the absolute least Congress should do to protect people's very basic rights to organize.
Sen.-elect Sherrod Brown (D) has thrown down the gauntlet to all the Democratic presidential candidates in a new interview with Mother Jones. Asked wh...
It's not that workers are unwilling to do the jobs - it's that workers are unwilling to do the jobs at the awful wages being offered. That's called Economics 101.
Peddling the Great Education Myth is the ultimate way to avoid challenging power.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) posted a response to a post I had written about his so-called "Grand Bargain" that is instructive on a number of different levels.
Beltway reporters, pundits and politicians only talk about issues when rich or powerful people see those issues as bothering them, and when they do talk about those issues, it is only in dry economic terms.
Friedman doesn't to answer why the global economy has been integrated with complex intellectual, patent and copyright protections, but no protections for wages, human rights, or environmental concerns.
Over the last few weeks, I have been contemplating how best to keep contributing to the political debate over the course of the next year. In that tim...
In These Times magazine was just named the winner of the 18th Annual Utne Independent Press Awards for Political Coverage, beating out other terrific publications like The American Prospect, The Nation and Mother Jones.
But, no - the hero creation machine must grind on, whether it means laying waste to actual, serious journalism or facts.
I am pumped up for 2007 and making my New Year's resolutions pretty simple: I'm going to do my best to stop talking about what "should" be done and I'm going to keep trying to actually go "do" it.
The next time you hear a member of the Bush administration or a Republican congressman spout off about how they "value life" - remember their complicity in the global AIDS holocaust.
