…all sorts exploded. Labor did not get the higher consideration Lincoln and Roosevelt said it deserved. Sales of Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” remained steady. Labor did not…

by Kenneth Thomas Discussing Tax Increment Financing on TV I recently appeared on a local public access TV show, Conversation with Lee Presser, discussing tax increment financing and European Union…

by Kenneth Thomas New Estimate of Offshore Wealth Shows Big Increase Since 2004 A new report by the Tax Justice Network, “The Price of Offshore Revisited,” shows that the amount…

by Kenneth Thomas Lost Output Over $3 Trillion And Rising Still traveling, so just a quick post, but this really can’t be emphasized enough. Andrew Fieldhouse at the Economic Policy…

…get something — and that’s exactly where WikiHillary was coming from. — WikiHillary for President, Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, today Eeewwwwwe. I mean, um … yikes. Friedman, of…

…in Lower Manhattan yesterday boiled down to this: Is a law authorizing the indefinite military detention of American citizens with only the barest recourse to civil courts constitutional? The lawsuit…

This November, voters in Colorado are going to decide on a referendum item that has just been certified for the ballot: should the state constitution be changed to allot its…

Via the New York Times comes this chart from the Federal Election Committee on the Supreme Court ruling on caps to political contributions….

by Mike Kimel To Honor Scalia I’ve been thinking about the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Apparently, he died while on a free, all-expenses…

…the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs and Researchpoll had been — and with the same tantalizing power for Democrats. Unlike some of the white working-class men who are breaking…