Economy and Business
Dodging the Fiscal Swindle
Talk of the so-called “fiscal cliff” has grown from a murmur to a roar this holiday season. But that doesn’t make this cliff any more realistic than Santa Claus.
Highway Robbery
A Pension Deficit Disorder
While America’s CEOs are fretting about the government’s so-called “fiscal cliff,” millions of American workers face a financial disaster that gets much less media attention. There’s a half-trillion-dollar deficit in the nation’s worker retirement benefits.
To Move Forward, We Must Learn from Our Progressive Past
Our contemporary billionaires, most Americans would agree, are exploiting our labor and polluting our politics. Can we shrink our super rich down to a less powerful — and more democratic — size? Of course we can. We Americans, after all, have already done that before.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Don’t Cut Our Kids Out of the Budget
Barack Obama won his hard-fought re-election bid because Americans who are committed to moving forward turned out in record numbers to vote, especially in battleground states.
Another Side of Inequality
You’ve no doubt heard about our widening gap between the rich and the poor. But did you know that the gap between the rich and America’s middle class is growing almost as fast?
The Trojan Horse in the Debt Debate
It’s budget showdown time in Washington. With various tax increases and spending cuts set to kick in at the end of the year, the pressure is on for Republicans and Democrats to make a deal.
Without Unity, We’ll Tumble Over the Fiscal Cliff
Debt! Deficit! Fiscal cliff! How to make sense of it all?
The ‘Fix-the-Debt’ Racket
