Pearl Korn

Co-written by Jonathan Stone

While the Affordable Care Act is being deliberated in the Supreme Court -- with no decision expected until the end of June -- progressives and all other rational human beings should ramp up their efforts to build the movement for single-payer and...

For months, we have been both entertained and outraged as the political theater of the absurd that was the Republican presidential primary played out across the country. From one state to the next, a collection of mixed nuts attacked each other and President Obama with a wild-eyed hysteria that is,...

Across America, we continue to hear the voice of the People rising up in anger and frustration at our dysfunctional and corrupt government. To be sure, there are still some good people in Congress -- among the many bad ones -- and separating that wheat from the chaff is an...

With the early arrival of spring, car owners have another reason to be up in arms over the cost of filling their gas tanks. Projections of $5.00 per gallon by summer are being bandied about across the country, and people are so angered by reckless Wall Street manipulators and oil...

We have just lost a progressive voice in Congress that for over a decade has been the conscience of his colleagues in that body politic and a clear and proud voice of the People. Dennis Kucinich, a eight-term congressman from the hardscrabble streets of Cleveland, Ohio, was a constant thorn...

America is engulfed in a new kind of warfare these days against a threat from within that is holding our nation hostage and destroying all we hold dear, especially our democracy and a middle class way of life we may never see again. The new weapons of mass destruction being...

The cautionary tale unfolding every day in Greece is giving rise to the grim reality that austerity carried too far can bring a people to near revolt. Unemployment in Greece is at a high of 20.6 percent, and the cuts to services and workers' benefits draconian, while giveaways...

More seasoned today than when he first ran for the White House, President Obama might now laugh at himself and how naive he sounded in 2008, when he declared that he would "change the way Washington works" if elected to the White House. Little did he know that only a...

It has taken 13 years for us to revisit the issues in To Err Is Human, the 1999 landmark government report that shocked our nation with its revelation that 98,000 people died yearly in hospitals due to doctors' errors. For decades, and through one administration after another, the...

At the end of 2011, Michael Moore announced in an e-mail to his hundreds of thousands of online followers that "... one of my top priorities in 2012 would be to spearhead a drive to remove all money from the electoral process. Period. Nothing -- and I mean nothing --...

Usually, at this time of year, we take personal stock of where we have been and what we hope to accomplish in the coming year. Most likely, this year we will also be taking inventory of where our nation has been and where it is headed, with our focus being...

As we try to raise our spirits with thoughts of another holiday season of parties, family gatherings and frenzied shopping, our collective rage mounts as we are brought back to stark reality with yet another example of just how dysfunctional our government has become -- the abject failure of the...

This is a lovely, pre-holiday tale that could have captured the imagination of Charles Dickens. It is the story of a little, independent, different kind of bookshop that has served an artist and working-class community for 34 years. A purveyor of unusual journals and books that are within reach of...

And so that was the refrain, in a chanting cadence, from a few hundred protesters marching from Zuccotti Park to the office building of WellCare on 5th Avenue and 16th Street in New York City. WellCare is a for-profit insurer that administers Medicare Advantage plans and Medicaid, and has been...

Many of us wondered when it would happen, what it would take to ignite a national outcry against those that are destroying the American Dream for millions for their own selfish gain. When would that magical tipping point occur when thousands, millions of those voiceless, "ordinary" Americans would come together...

Last Tuesday the Kaiser Family Foundation, a highly respected nonprofit health research organization, released its annual health insurance survey based on its research of some 2,100 small and large firms. Kaiser reported a whopping 9% rise in premiums this year for family plans and an 8%...

The Middle East Spring (and Summer) has signaled a region coming of age, as revolutions spread and brutal regimes topple -- a people's revolution that continues to unfold before our eyes. Meanwhile, America remains bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, trying to prop up weak and unpopular governments while defending...

A top economist informed me the other day that it could take 10 years for our economy to rebound if an active economic policy isn't in place. Unfortunately, neither our president nor the Congress have been able to offer coherent ideas for dealing with any of a whole host of...

We are all emotionally spent from the debacle on the Potomac that played out recently over raising the debt ceiling. The politics were brutal and those who lost will be the same middle class and working class Americans who've been getting the short end of the stick in this country...

Those lazy, hazy summer days of relaxing and thinking about traveling to far-off destinations is but a distant memory this year as we have been shocked back to brutal reality by the theatre of the absurd being played out in the debt ceiling fight in our nation's capitol. The thought...