Capitalist Revolution: Forget the Deficit and Learn From Europe
Before we go wild with our deficit-cutting scythe, let's make sure that we are not hacking away at our own feet in the process.
Before we go wild with our deficit-cutting scythe, let's make sure that we are not hacking away at our own feet in the process.
Lex Paulson | Posted 05.11.2012
The French president-elect might find an interesting lesson on socialist leadership in the far distance of fifth-century B.C. Europe, and specifically from the two men who dominated left-wing politics in the twilight of Athens' golden age.
Curtis Roosevelt | Posted 05.09.2012
Democrats are again in an excellent position to take a risk like FDR took with the New Deal. They might give themselves some identity other than that of modest centrists, constantly worried about offending one constituency or another.
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.07.2012
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) sounded off on the weekend's European elections, in which voters in Greece and France rejected politicians pushing austerity ...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.07.2012
Watching the jubilation at the Place de la Bastille last night, where the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande was declared the next President of France precisely at 8:00 p.m., followed by delirious chants of "Sarkozy, c'est fini!" I couldn't help thinking of Grant Park, November 2008.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.07.2012
However one cuts it, Messr. Hollande faces the same hard choices as does his defeated predecessor. Does he impose crushing new taxes on the wealthy or does he impose new taxes on everyone to help achieve revenue targets needed to help offset France's deficit?
Robert Reich | Posted 05.06.2012
We don't need socialism. We need a capitalism that works for the vast majority. The productivity revolution should be making our lives better -- not poorer and more insecure. And it will do that when we have the political will to spread its benefits.
The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 04.25.2012
President Barack Obama ridiculed a Republican Senate candidate on Wednesday for saying that the United States has "stage three cancer of socialism" be...
Brian Kahn | Posted 04.25.2012
Mariela Castro Espin is a leader in Cuba's struggle to achieve equal rights for its LGBT people. In this interview, Mariela answers probing questions: the politics of advocating gay rights in Cuba, criticism of Soviet-style socialism, and her critique of capitalism.
David Woolner | Posted 04.23.2012
For Roosevelt, government intervention in the economy was not about destroying individual liberty; it was about restoring individual liberty. This is a good reminder for President Obama.
Conn Hallinan | Posted 04.09.2012
Global capitalism -- including in China, despite its self-styled socialism with Chinese characteristics" -- is in its most severe crisis since the great crash of the 1930s. The question is, can any country make a system with serious built-in flaws function for all of its people?
Mitch Rofsky | Posted 04.03.2012
Obama's health care program, with its private doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, isn't close to socialism, of course. But is it close enough to liberalism?
Dinkar Jain | Posted 04.02.2012
If we overturn universal access to health care, the costs to America and humanity would be immense.
Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2012
Today, Harrington is almost a forgotten figure. Contemporary historians and sociologists still cite Harrington in their studies of poverty, but few Americans under 50, including most activists with unions, community organizers and civil rights groups, have heard of him.
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.19.2012
Challenging gender roles should not stop at the preschool door, and it should not just be about getting my daughter to see princesses in a different way or letting my son wear pink mittens.
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.01.2012
While workers are consumed with immediate problems of economic instability and unemployment, labor activists struggle to find unity as organizations jostle for representation in the fractious post-Mubarak political landscape.
Arnie Reisman | Posted 04.18.2012
When it comes to Obama, Tea Partiers sound like extras in The Oxbow Incident. When it comes to politics, they just sound like hypocrites.
Brent Budowsky | Posted 03.27.2012
While President Obama lifts his presidency to champion the cause of jobs that are made in the USA, his Republican opponents stake their plans for powe...
Ben Daniel | Posted 03.19.2012
When Republican presidential aspirants wish to discredit Barack Obama's policies, they call him a socialist. But is he? Of course not.
Joel D. Hirst | Posted 03.13.2012
President Martelly must recognize that the future prosperity of the Haitian people will not come from an association with the world's despots but with the hard work of fighting corruption, creating opportunities and educating his people.
Ethan Rome | Posted 03.12.2012
In the debates and campaign ads leading up to the New Hampshire primary a new strain of Republican politics has suddenly surfaced -- a brand of compassionate capitalism that, were it to come from President Obama, Newt Gingrich would describe as socialism.
Dean Baker | Posted 03.10.2012
It would be helpful for the media to tell the public that the Republicans have nominated a candidate who doesn't think that he can win the presidency without creating complete fantasies to advance his campaign.
Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 03.05.2012
The coming year will see China's leadership transition from a decade under President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao to a new cadre of younger leaders.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.30.2011
Young people -- the collegiate and post-college crowd, who have served as the most visible face of the Occupy Wall Street movement -- might be getting...
Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 02.18.2012
In the days following the strange coincidence of December 18 -- the deaths of both Kim Jong Il, North Korea's totalitarian "Dear Leader," and Václav ...
Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.18.2012