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Kurt Vonnegut sought to fool us with his eyes wide open.

By manipulating offshore havens, bogus bailouts and other loopholes, US corporations have gotten their tax rates down to a forty-year low.

To secure their privilege, the richest Americans resort to a range of maneuvers beyond the evasion of taxes and financial regulation.

Obama has failed not because he is a progressive in the mold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt but because he is not. 

With a record 46.2 million Americans living in poverty, it’s getting too late to give President Obama a pass on the economy.

Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency? A look at Obama's perpetuation of Bush's economic and national security policies. 

Read the full text of Senator Bernie Sanders's statement to Congress on the balancing the budget.

Big government is big precisely because it is so active in so many costly ways in serving the interests of our biggest corporations.

America is stuck in an absurd debate over how deeply to cut teachers’ pensions and seniors’ medical benefits while preserving tax breaks for the superrich.

Momentum is growing to reform campaign finance and rebalance our election system.