Politics

We could surmise that Mitt Romney as president would continue the financialization of our jobless economy, and he would help to increase wealth inequality by pushing a system that shifts profits to executives and financial investors.

The only way to bring back full employment is for the government to simply step in and hire people -- no one else will.

Many progressives and liberals have been coming to the same conclusion: someone has to challenge President Obama from the left. One of the main reasons...

as California has led the way in the high-tech global economy, its corporations have used new technologies to simply avoid paying state and federal taxes.

There are four progressive solutions would balance the California budget without resorting to drastic cuts in needed services.

There are four progressive solutions would balance the California budget without resorting to drastic cuts in needed services.

Perhaps mainstream media reporters are feeling threatened in their own jobs, but that is no reason to turn on the few people who still have some modicum of economic security in this country.

As the power of science increases, certain segments of the population cling to religion and popular myths in order to defend against reason and expertise. They are now quickly becoming corporate pawns.

Let's hope that Obama becomes more like FDR and less like Bill Clinton. In other words, he should push through a progressive agenda that helps the majority of Americans.

Before you tell me to get a life and loosen up a bit, step back and think about the last time you laughed and whom or what was the target of your laughter.

Here is what President Obama should do to help the country and fight against a Republican take over of Congress. He must first declare a...

Not only will Whitman's fiscal plan increase unemployment and poverty, while it dissolves the fraying safety net, but her idea of ending taxes on capital gains will rob the state of billions of dollars.