As if the student-loan crisis wasn’t bad enough, now there’s a proposal to create a market for loans for pre-school. The idea comes from
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Jimmy Carter: “America no longer has a functioning democracy”
On Tuesday, July 16, at an event in Atlanta, ex-president Jimmy Carter made his blockbuster statement referring to, among other issues, the mass surveillance
Obama to pick Bush Deputy Attorney General James Comey to head FBI
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) felt compelled to comment on Obama’s May 30 announcement of his choice of James Comey to head the
Senator Sanders holds town halls on the Danish “solidarity” system
“I won’t dispute for one second the problems of a system that demands immense amount of fund-raisers by its legislators,” Jim Himes—a Democrat from
Larry Lessig: A handful of people own our country
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. —Henry David Thoreau Activist and academic
Frank Rich and Joe Stiglitz on income inequality
On a recent segment of the Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel interviewed two guests at one time, something she rarely does. The guests, Frank Rich
Jeffrey Sachs: “We have a corrupt politics to the core”
In a recent talk at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve at a conference titled “Fixing the Banking system for Good,” Jeffrey Sachs, economist, Columbia University
Municipal stadium rip-offs: A new direction for the Occupy movement?
I always thought that it was a problem for the Occupy Movement to begin in late summer (2011) and then basically close up shop
“State-wrecked: the corruption of capitalism in America”
That’s the title of David A. Stockman’s March 31 opinion piece in the New York Times. Stockman is a Republican and former budget director
Big banks still receiving trillions in taxpayer subsidies
But hey, Democrats and Republicans are working tirelessly to cut Social Security and Medicare to “strengthen it for the future.” (I’m sure Orwell is