We must support policies and candidates committed to restoring constitutional wisdom to our political institutions. This means that we must be willing to see unsustainable programs cut, even programs that we like and depend on.
Phil Wolfson, MD | Posted 05.14.2012
The Republic based on the people's interests having sway through an unpolluted representative democracy is gone. Money and government are nearly one. The interests of the earth and our people -- the 99% -- are virtually unrepresented.
Scout, Ph.D. | Posted 05.02.2012
For the last two years, Mr. Khao has contacted every legislator he can, asking for official recognition and veteran's benefits for these thousands of U.S. citizens who were soldiers for the CIA's secret war in Laos. So far nothing has come to pass.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.14.2012
The U.S. government has spent millions and possibly tens of millions of dollars trying to railroad Haiti's former president. On behalf of U.S. taxpayers, we could use a Congressional inquiry into this abuse of our tax dollars.
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012
The government is the second largest component of the U.S. economy, making up one-fifth of all economic activity. But federal, state and local gov...
Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 05.02.2012
We need responsible action to slow, stop and reverse the accumulation of carbon pollution threatening dangerous changes to our climate. The insurance industry gets it.
AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 03.21.2012
WASHINGTON — Scientists who created easier-to-spread versions of the deadly bird flu said Friday they're temporarily halting more research, as i...
Kumi Naidoo | Posted 03.18.2012
More than ever, the networked world is holding corporate interests accountable for their environmental and human rights abuses. Don't let people power be silenced. Stop corporate censorship of the internet.
Posted 01.05.2012
MILAN/DETROIT, Jan 5 (Stephen Jewkes and Bernie Woodall) - Italy's Fiat SpA has raised its stake in Chrysler Group LLC by 5 percent to 58.5 percen...
Dan Kildee | Posted 03.03.2012
The bottom line is that communities are faced with growing costs from abandonment when they can least afford it and they are struggling to find creative ways to address the needs of government for revenue and communities for relief.
Posted 01.03.2012
Meryl Streep will appear as Margaret Thatcher in the new film, "The Iron Lady," but the Oscar-winning actress has more on her mind that merely playing...
Posted 12.21.2011
As a result of the spending bill that passed Friday, allegedly to avoid a government shutdown, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National En...
CNN | Ruben Navarrette | Posted 11.29.2011
Could it be that the reason our government is broken is because of which generation is running things? Authors Morley Winograd and Michael Hais thi...
AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 11.28.2011
EUGENE, Ore. — Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found pot on a ...
Dan Silverstein | Posted 11.13.2011
In the stock market the smart money knows "if you're going to panic, panic early". The same is true for entrepreneurs when it comes to recognizi...
Robert E. Litan | Posted 11.12.2011
America can get the infrastructure it truly needs without adding to the deficit if policy makers would enable the private sector to do the job.
William Lazonick | Posted 11.08.2011
The history of U.S. government support of industry shows that, far from eschewing a developmental role, it is plausible to argue that from the 19th century up to the present the United States has possessed the world's foremost developmental state.
Spencer Green | Posted 11.06.2011
Put hallucinogens in stamp adhesives to make sending mail fun again.
Posted 11.01.2011
NEW YORK (Ben Berkowitz) - Nearly one in five homeowners does not have enough insurance to rebuild his home if it is destroyed in a disaster, mark...
Ethan Casey | Posted 10.09.2011
A decade ago, I read a book that made a lasting impression on me. It was a memoir called Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner, who had recently passed ...
Ronen Paldi | Posted 10.09.2011
There may well come a day when all of the restrictions that prevent an American traveler from visiting Cuba are lifted. That day has not yet come.
AOL Government | Posted 09.11.2011
A recent survey of government employees revealed that federal workers have a strong desire, and many ideas, on how government needs to be restructured...
James Napoli | Posted 08.29.2011
Every great piece of history-making writing has to have gone through a first draft, right? Here are the ten most notable highlights from the rejected Declaration material.
Posted 07.17.2011
The U.S. government is suing Starbucks Coffee Company for firing a barista in El Paso because she is a dwarf. When the employee asked for a sto...
James Robison | Posted 05.30.2012