Democracy

Take action to support MN Gov. Mark Dayton in this tense government shutdown, as he fights to fill a $5 billion budget gap by making the wealthy pay their fair share instead of allowing Republicans to squeeze it all out of the middle class once again.

There's so much hostility in our society and media...doesn't it just piss you off?!

There seems to be less interest among Americans in the validity of a political conflict, even if its cause is clearly dishonest, than who comes out on top as the winner.

In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all...

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New Rule: If we stop treating politicians like the celebrities they're not, maybe then they'll act like responsible people we trust to represent us,...

I believe that socialism is the only system that we may subjugate ourselves to and still be able to call ourselves human and that society will slowly evolve into socialism, followed by the C-word, which I still have an unnatural reflex to.

  Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as...

The loss of integrity in today's corporate journalism stands out in great contrast against the legacy of the remarkable Bill Moyers.

In one sentence, the strategic narrative of the United States in the 21st century is that we want to become the strongest competitor and most influential player in a deeply inter-connected global system, which requires that we invest less in defense and more in sustainable prosperity and the tools of effective global engagement.