Eric Alterman
In Wisconsin and elsewhere, attacks on unions aren’t about budget savings. They're about dismantling the final barrier to the domination of American politics by the power of money.
Reagan proved that deficits don't matter—and truth doesn't either.
The assault on public employee unions is the next phase of a the forty-year campaign by the rich against the rest of us.
A computer virus foiling Iran's nuclear plans should delight those spoiling for an attack. Does it?
Conservatives today talk up all kinds of values, but they're all subordinated to a single goal: class warfare.
Obama's flawed tax compromise is just the latest result of the Democrats' failure to clearly explain their vision for this country's economic future.
The latest WikiLeaks dump has revealed that the CIA is conducting criminal operations. And no one seems to care.
Obama's mistakes in office are nowhere near the whole story. The rest of us must shoulder our share of the blame, too.


