We've heard it everywhere, on every station, every major news outlet, and every talk radio show: Islamophobia is alive and well in the United States.

In spite of overwhelming evidence, there is still an echo chamber on the right parroting failed policies. But why have these ideas spread?

Disturbing to many of us in the academic world is that the push for laissez-faire "legitimacy" by its ideological advocates runs counter to more than 230 years of historical evidence.

Citizens United is as bad for libertarian causes as it is for social democracy causes. Neither can work in a political system where government is sold to the highest bidder and the bids have become so extremely high.

Given all these swords and all these shields (and all of our frustrating wars and all of the lives spent), the key question of the 2012 presidential election should be: Are we truly more secure now than we were twelve years ago?

The nature of 21st century international economic competition writ large is not about who can become the most laissez faire capitalist but who can forge optimal bi-sectoralist policy-market synergies.

President Obama's speech hit all the right notes. He provided a background and context for the debt challenge. And he laid the blame for this challenge squarely where it belongs.

"The business of America is business." -- Calvin Coolidge The 30th president of the United States was ...

For the better part of the last decade, environmental concerns were downplayed and ignored because the Bush Administration didn't want to hinder the operations of the energy industry.

For my entire adult life, I have watched free-market fundamentalists do their thing. They demonize government, run for government, capture government, then dismantle and privatize government.

Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?

The disgust burbled up at the callousness of Enron; it has been simmering ever since, and with AIG it has boiled over.

We must not allow the Blue Dogs to slow down President Obama's momentum or water down the sweeping reforms the nation needs in these trying economic times.

How is it possible to disprove anything more thoroughly than Supply Side economics, and all its attendant Laissez Faire excesses, have been disproved,...

The problems we face in food safety are familiar when viewing the unfolding financial crisis. We see cuts in agency budgets, weakening of regulations, and the fox being put in charge of the henhouse.

The need to act and act forcefully is now. Obama realizes this, the American people realize this, Congress realizes this, and even Dubya has inkling that something is not right.