Ann Pettifor asked on Huffington Post recently whether all those "top stories" in the media these days are just for "top people." Citing surveys at the Pew Research Center showing that stories about the suffering of ordinary people in the recession have nearly vanished from the media, she wonders...

The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks to solve the mortgage crisis has been a failure. The banks welcome public money to remove toxic assets from their books, insured by we-the-taxpayers, as well as the hundreds of billions in direct handouts, but they've hardly returned the favor. They've...

Mr. Obama's recent words to the Muslim world may have hit their target. Many from across the political spectrum and around the globe are praising his powers of persuasion. They got the message. We need to break through our protective skins of prejudice and sectarian belief and see others...

The "debate" about how we're now on the slippery slope of socialism is truly a farce this time around! Virtually everything the Obama administration is doing, as Harold Meyerson said recently in the Washington Post, is about salvaging capitalism, and with mostly the same filter-down policies that got us...

Barack Obama's victory is indeed inspirational. At last the Bush regime is gone and we patiently wait to see what sort of change our new leader has in mind. His appointments have already raised suspicion. They're not the ones progressives expected, those who would truly revolutionize Washington. We won't see...