The cover story of Newsweek reads: "The Fantasy Life of Working Women, why surrender is a feminist dream." What fantasy life?
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.31.2012
On Dec. 18, a dozen retirees, men and women in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, began occupying a median strip along Route 33 in front of the closed Century Aluminum smelter in Ravenswood, W.Va.
Michael Sigman | Posted 03.30.2012
Occupy! was the 2011 Word of the Year according to the American Dialect Society. Did Americans sober up in 2011, or do we simply prefer to alternate between heaviosity and levity?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 03.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of people from across the country convened on Capitol Hill Tuesday to participate in Occupy Congress, an offshoot of the Occupy...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.17.2012
A diverse crowd of hundreds from around the country descended on Capitol Hill Tuesday as the Occupy movement tried to get its point across to a Congre...
Bob Burnett | Posted 03.07.2012
Whether or not you believe that on December 21st a cataclysmic event will occur, you can agree that on November 6th there will be a monumental presidential election to determine whether U.S. democracy survives.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 02.24.2012
Kissing at midnight on New Year's Eve is great -- hell, kissing anytime is great -- but dishing up hopping john on New Year's Day is when the new year really begins for me.
AP | By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 12.21.2011
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSON, Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Yale University librarian says the slogan "We are the 99 percent" by Occupy Wall S...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 02.04.2012
To serve the 1 percent, Republicans discarded all of their supposedly sacrosanct philosophy about taxes during last week's struggle over extending the temporary payroll tax cut.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.28.2012
Americans don't like debt, including bills owed by their government. It weighs on them, even when it's to create jobs and speed recovery. That's why there was a deficit Super Committee. But for the majority of millionaires, incurring debt does not evoke anxiety.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.24.2011
It is another GOP ruse to firmly establish in America an economy designed for, dedicated to and directed by corporations rather than a just economy controlled by and beneficial to the 99 percent.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.18.2011
There's something inherently wrong with a political economy where those in power sell the people a bag of goods: Tax cuts for the rich and corporations; deregulation; "free trade" bills; wars and excessive military spending; slashing social programs.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 04.19.2012