The political posturing around the debt ceiling "crisis" was mostly a distraction from the hard issues. The hardest of those — underlying…
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More and more we hear that nothing can be done to tax major corporations because of the threat of how they would…
On April 18, Standard and Poor (S&P), one of three "rating companies" that control that industry, revised its outlook on the safety…
Objective economic analysis is difficult to come by in this heated political moment, with deep budget cuts that disproportionately affect the poor…
"In contradiction" best describes the American left today. On the one hand, it is fragmented and dispirited, feeling itself distant from the…
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