Perspectives
- December 23, 2014The reason veterans should not experience poverty is not because they are veterans. It's because no one should.
- December 19, 2014Torture was not the work of a few “bad apples” – in the CIA or the military – but the result of official policy set at the government’s highest levels.
- December 18, 2014The tall tales of the phone and cable lobby keep crumbling down.
- December 17, 2014The reaction to the Senate torture report is as significant as what the study uncovered about the psychology and methods of those who run the Deep State.
- December 16, 2014See what we've been reading this year.
- December 16, 2014The test of whether a person can afford a lawyer is often so extreme that even the most indigent of defendants may be deemed unworthy of counsel.
- December 15, 2014Speaking at the Senate on Friday evening, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the mega-bank should be broken "into pieces."
- December 15, 2014The US Chamber of Commerce, one of the biggest corporate trade associations, and ALEC, one of the biggest corporate lobbying groups, are both startlingly hostile to shareholders.
- December 12, 2014The two objectionable provisions might seem unrelated, but in fact they are quite interrelated.
- December 12, 2014There was much to admire at The New Republic, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, but not its racist legacy.