Last week brought us a full plate of scandals in Washington. Added to the GOP-enhanced "Benghazi-Talking-Points-gate" was the story of the IRS singling out conservative organizations for extra scrutiny regarding their non-profit tax status. Speaker Boehner expressed his outrage by calling for jail time for the...

Soon-to-be retired Senator Max Baucus from Montana will long be remembered for his numerous sellouts to special interests at the expense of his own constituents and the nation, exemplified most recently by his being one of four "Democratic" Senators to vote against the Manchin-Toomey bill to expand background...

On April 15, two bombs exploded in Boston, the birthplace of our democracy, near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon. This also happened to be Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, commemorating the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution. When the smoke had cleared, three...

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The latest entry into the political action petition derby is none other than Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and current Professor of Public Policy at the University of California - Berkeley. Professor Reich has entered activist territory by creating a

Friday night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill had on Rachel Maddow as a guest panelist, and they discussed the budgets currently being offered by both parties in Congress. As to be expected, they found Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's budget laughable, offering up the same old...

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In the past few years we have gone from the Deficit Commission to the "fiscal cliff" to the Sequester, one manufactured crisis after another that has thrown the country into a state of panic and fear, thanks to an extremist...

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The day after President Obama's State of the Union address last week, some 200 protestors, led by the Sierra Club, gathered outside the White House to voice their opposition to the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline. Many handcuffed themselves to the White...

President Obama's inauguration on Jan. 21 signaled the beginning of his final term as President of the United States. His progressive-themed speech enthralled and astounded the crowd as he threw caution to the wind and spoke plainly about his vision for America. He would have indeed made Dr....

It is a new year, a new Congress and the beginning of the second and final term for President Obama, commencing with his inauguration on January 21st, which also happens to be Martin Luther King Day this year. MLK is an American icon whose stature and significance in...

While the ugly and rancorous "fiscal cliff" battle has been playing out in Washington, another negotiation equally critical for America was also being conducted, this one behind closed doors far across the ocean: the impending Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement ("TPP"), also known as "NAFTA on steroids."...

In a rare display of emotion, President Obama wept on Friday as he spoke of the tragic loss of 20 school children in yet another senseless mass shooting, this time at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, just days before Christmas. Twenty girls and boys, only six...

Dear S. Robson Walton,

As chairman of the board and the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, I hope you will share this letter with other members of your family, as well as Walmart's CEO and president, Michael T. Duke.

Since last week, many of your "associates" at...

It is now just over two weeks since the leviathan Hurricane Sandy landed on our shores. She stretched over 1,000 miles wide and pounded 17 states, with the worst damage being done to the New Jersey coast, Staten Island and the southern shore communities of Brooklyn, New York. Sandy's lashing...

We have been glued to our TV sets and computer screens during the presidential and vice-presidential debates over the past few weeks, and by now most voters should have a pretty clearly defined vision of what is at stake in this election. We can either vote for a candidate for...

The over 70 million viewers who tuned in last Wednesday to watch the Presidential debate could not have anticipated that they would see such a lackluster performance from the President. Al Gore suggested it could have been the altitude in Denver. David Axelrod, the President's chief strategist, offered...

"... we believe that 'We're all in this together' is a far better philosophy than 'You're on your own.'"

Bill Clinton's words continue to resonate long after the DNC in Charlotte, and have become the rallying cry of the Obama campaign. Bill Clinton, in his brilliant tutorial,...

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While the conventions and the two men who would be president have been uppermost in our minds for the past two weeks, we should not lose sight of other critical races going on across the country, in particular those in the House of Representatives. During the...

The Occupy movement seems to have all but disappeared from media coverage over the past months. Is this due to the fever pitch of the presidential campaign, or has the movement's time come and gone? The Occupiers are certainly still out there -- having held a National Convention...

Union Square is the setting for New York City's premier farmer's market, with 100+ vendors offering everything from flowers to local strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, artisanal cheeses, breads and pastries, fresh chicken, lamb, ostrich and goat meat, and even bison, along with a vast bounty of fish and seafood...

The Department of Agriculture has now declared more than 1,297 counties across 29 states as disaster areas due to a severe drought that is unlike anything seen since 1956. Food prices will surely rise as major crops of corn, wheat and soy wither on the vine. Energy prices...