Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.29.2012
Of course, there are Latino libertarians out there. But in general, talking Hispanics into espousing the Ron Paul agenda is only slightly easier than getting the pope to show up at the Stonewall Inn for a drink.
The New York Times | Paul Sullivan | Posted 05.27.2012
If there is one investment that has more to do with the heart than the head, it’s vineyards. It is also one that lends itself to jokes whose punch l...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2012
WASHINGTON -- David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 mill...
Robert Reich | Posted 05.24.2012
Mitt Romney epitomizes the unfairness of the American economy in this new Gilded Age. For that same reason, Romney is the quintessence of an economic approach shown to be anti-growth and anti-jobs. The president needs to tell this to the American people.
Rick Ayers | Posted 05.22.2012
In More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, many will find parallels to the current social crises, from the upheavals of Occupy Wall Street to the manipulations of the super rich.
Rui Dai | Posted 05.17.2012
In the past few days, this fight was just sparked in a very interesting direction by TED censoring one of its own talks about U.S. inequality and publicity for the soon-to-be-published book by Edward Conrad.
Jose Suarez | Posted 05.11.2012
Why isn't the so-called "well being" in Florida trickling down? Probably, because our politicians stopped working for us a long time ago.
Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.03.2012
Lately, the public mood has gone the opposite way. Simply put, we are told that we will all do better when most of us do worse.
Rebecca Solnit | Posted 05.01.2012
Collins's timely trilogy makes it clear that the 1%, having created a system of deeply embedded cruelty, should go, something highlighted by the surly defiance of heroine Katniss Everdeen who refuses to be disposed of.
Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 04.16.2012
For the 99 percent of Americans who don't use lobbyists to bend the tax rules, Tax Day is a day for reflecting on why we pay taxes.
Bob Burnett | Posted 04.13.2012
Understanding Romney's perspective helps crack his campaign code. When Romney says Obama made the economic crisis worse, he means Obama did not follow Republican advice and do nothing; Obama did not stand by and let the economy crater.
Bob Burnett | Posted 05.30.2012
Sixty-three years ago, Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 turned out to be prophetic. Will that be true of The Hunger Games? Decide for yourself and "May the odds be ever in your favor."
Don McNay | Posted 05.27.2012
Before I took the time to really study the legislation I called it Obamacare. I encouraged my Democratic Congressman to vote against it, which he did. Now I am calling it health care reform.
LearnVest | Posted 05.24.2012
Forbes' comprehensive list of the world's billionaires (there are 1226) came out recently, and we were curious -- are there women on the list? Turns out, there are.
Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012
By David Cay Johnston March 15 (Reuters) - The aftermaths of the Great Recession and the Great Depression produced sha...
Posted 03.15.2012
A Mitt Romney fundraiser brought Occupy Wall Street protestors back from the depths of winter for a protest outside the Waldorf-Astoria, where the pre...
Fermin Vasquez | Posted 05.01.2012
Corporations and the 1% with their unlimited cash coffers and influence over Sacramento politicians will seek to drown out the voices of the 99%. While they may have unlimited resources, we have unquenchable creativity and people power.
The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 02.29.2012
It may not be surprising to see the Occupy slogan plastered on t-shirts or signs in Zuccotti Park, but on the back of a car worth more than $50,000? T...
Peter Smirniotopoulos | Posted 04.08.2012
It's time for the 99% to put up or shut up; time to "vote with our wallets and pocketbooks"; time to act as much like the "good global citizens" our rhetoric suggests we want everyone else in the world to be.
Fred Goldring | Posted 04.06.2012
The top 1% should realize that it's actually in their own interests to take care of the bottom 99%.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.23.2012
Policies that boost economic growth don't necessarily accelerate income inequality -- they can actually reduce it, a group of economists from develope...
Jedediah Purdy | Posted 03.21.2012
This is how we've learned to talk about our economy: as a matter of personal virtue and vice, from the overdrawn consumer to the one-percenter with the fifteen percent tax rate and some senators' private numbers in his iPhone.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.19.2012
Over at the Washington City Paper, "Rich People Things" author Chris Lehmann goes questing after rumors that post-crash tchotchkes from the House of L...
Lennard Davis | Posted 03.19.2012
That's right; only people at or near the poverty line get a tax rate like Romney's. So what's a high flying one-percenter doing paying bargain-basement taxes?
Paul Szep | Posted 05.29.2012