by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 22, 2010 | Blog
The new conservative 'Mount Vernon Statement' unveiled last week claims that right-wingers are upholding what the Generation of 1776 held dear. But those right-wingers, history shows, are conveniently overlooking what the Founders truly feared. The pillars of American...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 21, 2010 | Blog
Never before in modern American history, suggests a new look at America's highest 400 incomes from the IRS, have so few made so much at the expense of so many. Or paid so precious little in taxes. The IRS has released, with not a trace of fanfare, the latest figures...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 17, 2010 | Blog
The British already have universal health care. So why do average life expectancies in the UK vary so dramatically by neighborhood? A new UK blue-ribbon commission has some answers to questions that Americans ought to be asking. Policy makers in the United States...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 14, 2010 | Blog
In contemporary American political life, only the rich can afford to be politically impatient. The big question: How long will the rest of us tolerate such a starkly unrepresentative status quo? By Sam Pizzigati Four score years ago, amid the tumult of the Great...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 8, 2010 | Blog
President Obama’s new federal budget plan won’t end plutocracy in America. But this second Obama budget, if adopted, might actually inconvenience it. By Sam Pizzigati The Heritage Foundation, the right wing’s most lavishly funded think tank, doesn't much like...
