USA

By Mark Weisbrot President Obama is currently confronting mostly Republican opponents over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts to the richest 1 percent of taxpayers. Between…
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By Bill Press For me, the first sentence of a New York Times article, the Monday after the Aurora, Colo., shooting, says it all: "Unhindered by federal background checks or…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times For years, allegedly serious people have been issuing dire warnings about the consequences of large budget deficits — deficits that are…
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By Saul Landau Savage=not domesticated or cultivated; wild. In June and July the war on drugs proceeded apace as DEA agents and Honduran military goons knocked off some Miskitu…
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By Jilian Mincer From Reuters For generations, most college-bound Americans paid reasonable fees to attend publicly financed state universities. But the bedrock of that system is…
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By Bill Press Somewhere, Newt Gingrich is laughing. Sure, we made fun of him during the primaries. And we cheered when Mitt Romney poured in the big bucks and crushed him like a bug.…
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By Carol Morello and Luz Lazo From The Washington Post The fate of Baltimore may rest with immigrants like Alexandra Gonzalez. A native of Puebla, Mexico, Gonzalez feels more at home…
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By Saul Landau Western leaders met in Paris last week to discuss possible intervention in Syria where almost 10,000 people have died over the last year of internal conflict. The West…
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By Bill Press Over the last decade, I've published more than 500 columns. But none got more reaction than my column of March 15 entitled "Politicians Fiddle While Earth…
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By Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake From The Washington Post THE FIX - The last week of the presidential campaign has been the nastiest to date, with outrage stoked, allegations leveled…
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