Miles Mogulescu

Now that President Obama's views on gay marriage have "evolved," it's time for his views on Wall Street to likewise "evolve" and for Obama to forcefully campaign to break the stranglehold of Too Big To Fail banks on the economy.

For its part, Wall Street's view of Obama has...

You know you may not be a kid anymore when rock 'n roll heroes from your youth start to die -- not in their '20s from too much, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll -- but in their '60s or even '70s from diseases of aging like stroke and cancer.

Conservatives and liberals may disagree about the constitutionality of the individual mandate requiring all uninsured Americans to buy health insurance from private companies or pay a penalty to the IRS.

But there is no debate about whether single-payer Medicare For All would be constitutional. No one -- not even the...

12 reasons to vote Republican in 2012 (not). Pass it on. 'Nuff said.

If President Obama is serious in his rhetorical criticism of Citizens United, he may now have his last best chance to get the Supreme Court to modify or reverse Citizens United. He can instruct Attorney General Eric Holder to file a brief supporting the Montana Supreme Court in holding that...

The social conservative wing of the Republican Party has also long contained a strong strain of hostility to sex for purposes other than procreation and a fear of women being able to control their bodies without the dominance of men.

As the GOP rushes headlong to the extreme right...

Monday evening I received a blast email to past Obama supporters from President Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina, that henceforth the Obama reelection campaign would work closely with pro-Democratic Super PACs to raise unlimited campaign contributions from large corporations, unions, and individual millionaires and billionaires.

While from...

Mitt Romney's tax returns and financial disclosures reveal that Romney has millions of dollars stashed in Cayman Islands funds. According to ABC News, Romney has as much as $8 million invested in at least 12 Cayman Islands funds, and another investment worth between $5 million-$25 million domiciled in...

This Saturday, January 21st, is the second anniversary of the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Citizens United that corporations are persons with the same rights as living natural persons and may legally donate unlimited amounts of money to support or oppose political candidates as long as their contributions...

A headline from Salon.com last week read: "Rick Santorum is Coming for Your Birth Control". Santorum is explicit that birth control is "not okay" and that state governments should have the right to make it illegal. But a closer look reveals that access to birth control (as well...

They're considered the "Smartest Guys in the Room" (yeah, they're mostly guys).

They're the financial "wizards" like Robert Rubin, Hank Paulson, Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon -- They invented what Warren Buffet called "financial weapons of mass destruction" which earned them each hundreds of millions while wrecking the global economy....

F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The rich are different from you and me, Ernest.
Ernest Hemingway: "Yes, they have more money."

The rich don't just have more money than you and me. The rich use their money to legally bribe politicians to support policies that favor themselves over the...

The movement to get money out of politics and to end the system of legal bribery we call elections is rapidly growing.

In a symbolic, but significant boost to the movement, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted on Tuesday night to make LA the first major city to endorse...

Speaking before a group of grey-uniformed make-believe Confederate soldiers at a Civil War battle reenactment, Newt Gingrich called today for the reinstatement of slavery.

"Really poor people in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and nobody around who works," said Gingrich. Tying a few of them...

The 5-4 corporate Supreme Court majority ruling in the 2009 Citizens United case that corporations are persons, with the same rights as natural persons to donate unlimited sums to support or oppose political candidates, was the straw that broke the camel's back. Large numbers of Americans finally realized that legal...

With no visible leaders, without traditional "demands" and with a consensus-driven decision-making process in which everyone who can sit through a General Assembly has an equal voice, #Occupy Wall Street has succeeded where no other progressive-leaning movement in recent years has succeeded in building a mass movement that has changed...

Ladies and gentlemen--start your DVRs.

The best news talk show on television, bar none, is MSNBC's new weekend morning program Up With Chris Hayes.

The problem is that--apparently not wanting to interrupt its usual weekend lineup of shows about prison rape and the like--MSNBC has chosen to program Up at...

When the Pope criticized Stalin's treatment of Catholics, Stalin famously asked, "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"

When Paul Krugman criticized the Obama administration for including too many tax cuts in a too-small stimulus package, Rahm Emanuel famously asked, "How many bills has he passed?"

As I...

When progressive activism achieves meaningful results and scores a win over Wall Street banks, there's nothing wrong with taking a little victory lap.

After receiving 38,358 petitions from Californians organized by The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and CREDO Action, California Attorney General Kamala Harris

There's a bizarre, otherworldly nature to the extreme disconnect between politicians in the US and Europe who are pursuing policies of austerity, cuts, and deficit reduction, and financial markets in the US and around the world which seem to be begging governments to stimulate the economy, create jobs, increase aggregate...