…lost my faith in the idea of progress. I mean that in the sense that it was used at the beginning of the 20th century, that mankind is getting wiser…

…me, though, I’ve discovered!) But I do know a tad about 20th century American history. So when I read Paul Krugman’s latest blog post, titled “Stimulus Derangement Syndrome,” about the…

…would remain substantially lower than they were during most of the 20th Century. But, by all means, Speaker Boehner, bring on the theft language, again and again. Keep it up,…

…economic insecurity, and widening inequality” . See Robert Reich, Memo to Obama: Focus on the inequality gap, Salon.com (Feb. 11, 2013). He’s right. “It’s the economy, stupid“, that old slogan…

…on the UC of Berkeley campus labors as progressive a progressive economics faculty as anyone should wish. They could you tell you, Madam Mayor, and tell everyone else at the…

The final problem is that, in an effort to reduce the economic concentration of power, the administration is concentrating political power in Washington. If the problem is that talent is…

…that’s what’s happening with our health care programs and these reforms.” Obamacare Is Fascist, Not Socialist In a short period after labeling the PPACA as fascism, John Mackey reconsiders his…

…World, the main victims of climate change here in Africa, maybe 200 million deaths anticipated this century. And the big question we’ll all be asking in the coming months: can…

…forward by neocons and the cadre of rabid right-wingers whose policies have done such great and possibly irreparable damage to the world in this century. I rarely agree with Mish…

…whole century and into the next, the SS tax would need to be raised another one percent, while wages will have gone up over one hundred percent. What the bad…