Progressive Opinion

The Next Recession

The conditions that helped us beat the last recession will not be available for the next. more »

The Price Of Cheap Chicken

latimes.com — The rapid evolution and spread of bird flu is the result of factory poultry farming and cross-border trade.

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Drain America First

Bush's energy policy is extraordinary in its willingness to harm American interests and enrich oil companies. more »

Who's Your Daddy?

A recent economic debate between centrist and liberal Democrats made it clear who is working for whom. more »

Paying The Price Of Security

Who owns what doesn't matter if the government won't fund basic protective measures. more »

Posturing Over Ports

In the flap over a Dubai company managing U.S. ports, politicians from both parties are guilty of selective outrage. more »

Grand Theft Baghdad

For the party of fiscal accountability, Republicans in Congress have dangerously little interest in investigating the contracting scandals of the Iraqi occupation. more »

Debating Impeachment: Your Letters

What Muslims really want; the big "I" question; New Orleans' free market: Readers react in this week's letters. more »

A Trust, By Any Other Name

Soon America will realize that to save our free market system, we will need to roll back the power of oligopolies. more »

The Permanent Energy Crisis

Without a dramatic change, energy scarcity—with its wars and high prices—will define the coming era. more »