- December 9, 2015The progressives that Clinton is clearly trying to win over need to keep pressing for bolder reforms.
- December 2, 2015
This post originally appeared at The Huffington Post. There's an old corruption joke that you'll find variations of in India, in Nigeria, in China -- I've heard versions from everywhere. A bureaucrat from China visits an Indian counterpart and sees the beautiful home and asks, "how did you get this beautiful house?" The Indian functionary answers, "Can you see that bridge?" "Yes" "10 percent," says the bureaucrat, smugly. Then, a decade later, the Indian counterpart returns the ...
- December 2, 2015Zephyr Teachout writes that while the state Assembly speaker has been convicted of corruption, he's only a small piece of New York's dishonorable system.
- December 1, 2015Corporate funding has played a huge role in influencing our national conversation on climate.
- December 1, 2015Though President Obama rejected the controversial pipeline, activists on the West Coast are waging an even bigger fight.
- December 1, 2015Corporate funding has played a huge role in influencing our national conversation on climate.
- November 30, 2015Members of Congress shouldn’t fall for these tactics. They should see these provisions for what they really are: special interest giveaways to Wall Street that have no place in this year's appropriations bill.
- November 30, 2015Members of Congress shouldn’t fall for these tactics. They should see these provisions for what they really are: special interest giveaways to Wall Street that have no place in this year's appropriations bill.
- November 27, 2015Living in America sometimes resembles taking part in a Ponzi scheme, and its likely to get worse before it gets better.
- November 23, 2015As nations confront the threat of Daesh/ISIS, Israel still has time to make a brave peace with Palestinians.