Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it's a choice we need to make again in this generation, if we w...

As productivity increased in this country, and employees provided more value, only those at the top that got the spoils. If one watches co...

Here are some actual facts about our tax system. Conservative politicians and corporate lobbyists (coincidence, right?) have constructed a...

In the past four years, under the leadership of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has made it far easier to buy a...

The strike not only may have violated international law, but also flies in the face of President Obama’s policies on targeted killings.  A...

The State Department made several flawed assumptions and decisions. When the State Department issued its environmental impact statemen...

If you were wanting something that takes on inequality in America the way Lyndon B. Johnson took on poverty in his 1964 State of the Unio...

“How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic” is a series from Grist Magazine written by Coby Beck.  It contains responses to the most common skep...

Pennsylvania became a case study for the problems with voter ID laws. Judge Bernard McGinley found that the law violated the state constit...

The really significant parts of Obama’s speech were the things he did not mention. He did not call for a full stop to the bulk collection ...

18 environmental, environmental justice, and public health advocacy organizations have written a pointed letter to President Obama. Citin...

Sustained faithfulness in advocacy must be grounded in a larger life of discipline, humility, and hope if it is to endure for the long hau...

Financialized capitalism is, thus, a deeply unequal system, prone to bubbles and crises — none greater than that of 2007-'09. Evidence...

-The Sponsors Speak Award: PBS -- The January 23 episode of PBS series Nova was a mostly upbeat report on drones and surveillance. What v...

Conservatives’ deepest convictions (however ill-founded and fundamentally flawed) determine their reaction in advance. Never mind that...

The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. The U...

Privilege works in part by masking the needs of others and habituating some segment of the population to having some of their needs met at...

It's time to tamp down the breathless indignation about these health plan cancellations. Affordable Care Act critics (as well as gove...

While most of us would be alarmed if we thought we were facing down the apocalypse and a worldwide war that will kill millions, they can...

Here’s what I learned about why right-wing extremists are on the ascendency. After many years as a psychotherapist studying the psycho-d...

Common-sense Republicans like myself understand that the Affordable Care Act is not an existential threat and doesn't deserves an exis...

"Privatize" means "Pay for it yourself." We’re losing public goods available to all, supported by the tax payments of ...

The financial crash of 2008-09 and the bailouts that followed reinforced the dominance of Wall Street over the US economy. On July 16, 201...

Disgraceful propaganda has left the public misinformed and confused. Remember all those deficit hawks who screamed that the federal defi...

One would hope that segregationists' arguments would have been relegated to the dust bin of history, rather than in use by conservati...

Drone warfare demands an ethical response. On Dec. 14, President Obama stood in the White House press room, tears in his eyes, and spoke f...

Liberal outfits were targeted, too. Bad news for the Republican scandalmongers: The IRS also gave special scrutiny to groups with progress...

The past 40 years have been a time of vaulting libertarianism; we need a communitarian corrective, which seems quite impossible at this mo...

Ryan and his family have a long history of relying on government, just like any and all of us do. Rep. Paul Ryan is back to his old tric...

The loss of a job thanks to abuse can end up cutting off a lifeline to end that abuse. Last week, Carie Charlesworth, a teacher in Califor...

Another instance of the most business-friendly justices in 65 years siding with their friends. In a 5-3 ruling with Justice Sonia Sotomay...

Already TransCanada is digging up stretches of faulty piping. Property owners who watched with disgust and fear as TransCanada contractors...

There’s a connection between the ownership structure of our economy and the vitality of our democracy. Cities where small, locally owned...

Innocence, of course, is just one reason to end executions. Abolition in Maryland, which has executed more than 300 people, is important. ...

To this day, antipersonnel weapons—the technologically refined version of the primitive pressure cooker fragmentation bombs exploded in Bo...

Austerity leads the economy to perform more poorly. The last week has been a flurry of headlines decrying the complete and utter failure o...