If there is one thing that will start turning things around, it's pressure from Americans who are seeing their jobs dry up.read more

There really is no excuse now for not pushing a progressive agenda through, no excuse for offering half a loaf when we can now get the whole loaf.read more

Iran is hardly the first Muslim country even in the recent past to have seen the use of peaceful protests against an authoritarian regime.read more

I’d hate for my kid to have Clarence Thomas as a principal. And I hate for my country to have Clarence Thomas as a Justice.read more

He hinted that he was prepared to sell the public option down the river, and he foolishly backed off another stimulus, too.read more

The new state-by-state unemployment figures are shocking. We need more deficit spending to pull us out of this recession.read more

The democratic longing, and the democratic thronging, shows no signs of letting up.read more

Nothing’s capitalism’s fault, he says. If there’s a fault, it lies in ourselves.read more

May the Right be right that, in Sotomayor, another secret radical is inching her way onto the Court.read more

The day before Barack Obama felt compelled to be defensive at the AMA about single-payer, 350 people saluted a champion of the cause.read more

Boeing, BAE Systems (British), Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon were the largest producers of death, with arms profits for Boeing itself topping $4 billion.read more

“The only nonnegotiable principle here,” he said, “is success. Everything else is negotiable.” But success is not a principle.read more

Sadly, the Obama Administration seems to be backing away from support for courageous Egyptian reformers.read more

This was the Obama I admire. But he couldn’t help glossing over the realities of current U.S. policy.read more

It was hard to stomach watching Obama salute “the long history of friendship” between the United States and Saudi Arabia and debase himself by saying he was there “to seek his Majesty’s counsel.”read more