My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat.  What happened? “They lost me,” ...

Despite rising prices at US gas pumps, demand in the US was so low it has become a net exporter of gasoline, unable to consume all that i...

When you claim to fervently believe in the holy words of the Judeo-Christian Bible, and your political philosophy is diametrically oppos...

It’s been two years since hell paid Haiti a visit, but for countless women, terror still stalks the ruins. The scars of the January 2010 e...

That Lawrence Summers, a president emeritus of Harvard, is a consummate distorter of fact and logic is not a revelation. That he and Bill Cl...

Since President Obama became chief executive, the national debt has risen almost $5 trillion. But how much of that was because of policies...

Several points in the recent New York Times story on Apple and why the iPhone jobs are mostly not in America caught my attention, but none...

In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global m...

Faith in Public Life reports that more than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians across the country are calling on two of their “fellow Cat...

No one will confuse it with Maria, Full Of Grace , but like that more accomplished film about moving illegal material across borders, the li...

Gingrich Rides Racially Coded Rhetoric to Surge in South Carolina - Ben Adler Gingrich’s rhetoric -- calling President Obama “the best fo...

A tax break for Walmart means higher taxes for residents, according to assessors in several area communities. Wal-Mart Associates Inc. i...

As I join many in my community in the annual post-feast January slim-down, it occurred to me that this is a fitting moment to reflect on...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled a Scrooge move just before Christmas. The agency published an entry in the Federal Register de...

Words are the weapons of choice in economic and political wars. Corporatists own the Republican Party, and large swathes of the Democr...

Because Obama has governed as a centrist Republican, these GOP candidates are able to attack him as a leftist radical only by moving so ...

When your entire philosophy is that government is the problem, you make government the problem.  Last week, Speaker Boehner described the ...

The Christmas  kulturkampf  is a growth industry, providing an effective boost for conservative fundraising and a ratings bonanza for ri...

Early in this years Presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich emerge as the cruelest and most unusual contender. It figured that a Republican p...

We've been conditioned simply to accept these incidents as though they carry no meaning. On November 25, the New York Times reported--...

Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly got to talking about a UC Davis police officer's appalling use of pepper spray on non...

Television show Up With Chris Hayes unveiled a major scoop: the show obtained a written pitch to the American Bankers Association from a ...

An official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing, said the motive for the gunfire might have be...

An anti-Solyndra ad put out by Americans For Prosperity has been viewed 1 million times on YouTube alone, not to mention millions more on ...

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to health reform this spring. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is married to a paid advocat...

It's clear that the Obama administration is willing to override the serious safety concerns raised by its own oil spill commission. Th...

The economy is in serious trouble. There are 25 million people in need of full-time work, wages are declining and one in four mortgages is...

Yeah, yeah, you know -- the world population is hitting 7 billion this year. Here are some facts about the world's people that you might...

While rich, industrialized nations caused climate change through past carbon emissions, it is the developing world that is bearing the brunt...

Whenever I write about Occupy Wall Street, some readers ask me if the protesters really are half-naked communists aiming to bring down the...

As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, s...

A major study on income equality by a non-partisan government agency is likely to boost the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, who...

Economically, things began to fray, and fray badly, in the 1970s. Yet America misdiagnosed the problems. Rather than focus on the overseas...

Now all of America is seeing the result of police militarization. Efforts to intimidate the protesters are symptoms of three decades of po...

The flat tax is a fraud. It raises taxes on the poor and lowers them on the rich.  The details of flat-tax proposals vary, of course. But ...

Reading the transcript of the most recent Republican debate on the economy is, for anyone who has actually been following economic events th...

Although I shouldn’t be surprised, I have to say that I do find myself angered and appalled by a reaction that has recently emerged in oppos...

The financial crisis and the jobs crisis have demonstrated to the American people that we now have a government that is of the 1 percent, by...

The Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable society - unless more Americans know the ...

One sign of Republicans' success in hyping the Solyndra scandal is that they've got everybody calling it a scandal. Despite the ...

Corporate chieftains often claim that fixing the US economy requires signing new free trade deals, lowering government debt, and attractin...

What Washington can’t seem to understand is the scope of the crisis that Americans face. It isn’t just the 25 million people in need of f...

In recent years, the Boston Tea Party has been associated with a right-wing movement that supports policies favoring powerful corporations...

When President Obama released his plan for “the Buffett rule,” which involves closing tax loopholes and ensuring that millionaires pay their...

Remember when George W. Bush ran as a "Compassionate Conservative?" Nice slogan. The problem was that "Compassionate Cons...

Pearl Jam have continued to exist for 20 years not because of fortune, fame, or even hit records, but for a reason much more elemental altog...

While major brands continue to address issues like sweatshops in developing nations, many companies still do not know where the supplies c...