The U.S. Census Bureau news release on “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010” is just four pages long, but that’s enough. The full report, at 95 pages, is just too ...

In a democratic, moral nation, would you believe income disparity has come to pass? Yes, to the extent that a single hedge-fund hustler can make as much yearly income as 85,000 school teachers! That ...

Here’s a meaty article by the conservative professor James Kurth, discussing the foreign policy implications of our plutocratic governing order. Excerpts: It is obvious that the 1990s was a decisive ...

More than 20 years ago, then–Supreme Court Justice David Souter tried to warn that big money in politics risked turning United States officials into tools of an emerging “plutocracy.” We now know from ...

President Trump's easy forgiveness of the Saudi plutocrats who almost certainly murdered and dismembered journalist Jamal Khashoggi is consistent with this president's comfortable bonhomie with ...

That quaking and creaking isn’t from the Chilean earthquake, it’s a destructive seismic shift to right-wing extremism and plutocracy in real time with its epicenter in Texas. The rumble began with ...

Committee chosen to draft a declaration of independence for the 13 North American British colonies, from left, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston and Roger Sherman.

According to a popular view on the political left, businessmen want to control the government and our lives in service of their profits. So when a businessman like Donald Trump becomes president, it ...

Tax cuts at a time when the need for investments in education, infrastructure, water, the environment, and social welfare is growing tremendously constitutes simply a political crime. No one likes to ...

Editor: Here we go again. Privatize the Postal Service. Privatize the prisons. Privatize public schools. Privatize the entire government. Make the Social Darwinism completely obvious. The “I Got Mine, ...

“Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the ...

A recent letter to the editor quoted Alexander Hamilton to make a point about our current political situation. Maybe President’s Day would be a good day to see what some of our founding presidents had ...