Perspectives

Joel Berg on the history of food aid's marriage to farm aid.

Meet the Press host David Gregory ignited further controversy when he asked the journalist who broke the NSA leak story whether he should be charged with a crime.

Brazilians have taken to the streets to protest political corruption and economic injustice -- why haven't we?

Journalist Dan Froomkin argues that the press should be doing more to foster the debate on transparency that the nation needs.

David Sirota explains how private contractors like Booz Allen bankroll Congress and control the debate about security, surveillance and privacy.

David Sirota argues that the national intelligence director has become "the embodiment of perjury before Congress."

Poor schools underperform largely because of poverty and economic inequality, not because teachers have it too easy, writes David Sirota.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann says Senate Democrats' commitment to economically-vulnerable Americans "is about as thin as Republican cut proposals are deep."

Andrew Bacevich says wars need names, and in the absence of one now, proposes names that might actually explain what’s going on.

Ten years after George Bush's tax cut on dividends, Bruce Bartlett says even conservative economists can't defend it, including the one who pushed it through.