by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog
Adele Stan, the Washington editor of AlterNet, says that as crazy and extreme as some of what is said and done at the Conservative Political Action Conference seems to be, progressives should still be concerned about the ability of conservatives to win the political...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog
Egalitarian-minded academics have just subjected a central political question of our time to some rigorous research scrutiny. Billionaire Warren Buffett is still paying taxes at a lower rate than his secretary. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz last year collected $117.5...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog
HuffPost Live had a discussion segment based on a piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the racist BusinessWeek cover that depicted greedy minority borrowers raking in fistfuls of cash from "liar loans." The session included a mistreated homeowner named Rose...
by Thom Hartmann | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog
When you think European financial crisis, you think Greece, or Spain, or Italy. But economic trouble in the small island nation of Cyprus is causing a serious panic throughout Europe. Because of Cyprus banks' exposure to the financial troubles in neighboring Greece,...
by Adele Stan | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, the large annual gathering of right-wing activists and followers, people say a lot of crazy things -- too many, in fact, for me to cram into a single story. So I’ve picked a random 10 -- random insofar as they were...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 15, 2013 | Blog
Forgive us if we begin our discussion of the Senate Subcommittee for Investigation’s JPMorgan Chase hearing with a small victory lap, but as they say down South, “It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true.” We’ve been saying for years that JPMorgan Chase is fundamentally a...
