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Just 40 years ago, most Americans rubbed elbows with neighbors from a fairly wide cross-section of income levels. But today's rich, Census data show, are keeping everyone else at arm's length — and more. How many neighborhoods have you ever seen with oodles of rich...

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) offered the strongest constitutional amendment introduced in either House of Congress so far to rectify the imbalance of power between the corporations and the people in our democracy. As the struggle in the streets intensifies,...

Almost since the Occupy Wall Street movement began, everyone from pundits to the person-in-the-street have offered their $0.02 on what the OWS movement "should" do next. The number of columns and blog posts offering such advice naturally increased after the midnight...

There's also this, from a must-read article in The Nation by George Zornick [T]o listen to most media coverage of the deficit debates—and too often, the rhetoric thrown about by Republicans and some Democrats—one comes away thinking the only way to get the fiscal...

Assuming the "Super Committee" fails to forge a deficit reduction compromise, those who proclaim to be "deficit hawks" will respond will sadness and anger. They will decry the inability of Congress to function. They will alarm us that we are on a fiscal path to...

As Mayor Bloomberg's forces swooped down on Occupy Wall Street, news reports described the "hundreds of police and private security guards" who had re-taken Zuccotti Park. Those private guards were used against public citizens who had been exercising their civil...