In short, the debt has gone up by about half under Obama. Under Ronald Reagan, it tripled. —- A study by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible ... More »

Now that full public glare unzips what remains of Romney’s sanitized image, what emerges is a most disagreeable huckster, a Babbitt on steroids. Romney creeps us out ... More »

I agree with him that finance, certainly the financial industry, has been—had way too much influence on policy. And in Europe, they have done, if anything, even more than ... More »

Romney’s technique is that—since basically every word he says is a lie, including “a,” “and” and “the,” you never know where to ... More »

It is both terrible and hilarious to contemplate. The bank has spent a fortune in legal fees trying to keep this material out of the public eye, and here one of their own ... More »

But Israel has absolutely no interest in the Palestinians. They can—you know, if they disappear, that’s just fine. —- George Bush didn’t start the ... More »

So it’s no great secret that the U.S. electoral system is mainly public relations extravaganzas. They keep away from issues. It’s sort of a marketing affair, and the ... More »

All of this strongly suggests that we’re suffering not from the teething pains of some kind of structural transition that must gradually run its course but rather from an ... More »

But let’s also stop hoping Wall Street will mend itself. What just happened at J.P. Morgan – along with its leader’s cavalier dismissal followed by lame reassurance ... More »

For the better part of the last decade, a small cabal of self-anointed counterterrorism experts has been working its way through the U.S. military, intelligence and law ... More »

It’s important to get behind a plank of specific ideas, like resurrecting Glass-Steagall, like breaking up the big banks, like making sure that taxes are increased on the ... More »

These men began at first by putting to death without a trial the most wicked and generally hated citizens, whereat the people rejoiced greatly and declared that it was well ... More »

…the bill appears to target whistleblowers and leakers, and threatens investigative journalism. More »

But a funny thing happened in 2010: much of the world’s policy elite—the bankers and financial officials who define conventional wisdom—decided to throw out the ... More »

Take 9-11. That means something in the United States. The “world changed” after 9-11. Well, do a slight thought experiment. Suppose that on 9-11 the planes had bombed ... More »

…Swiss Banking giant UBS which funds and provides investment support and advisory services for ALL companies ... More »

he ads don’t pass the Pinocchio test. “One can certainly raise questions about how stimulus funding was used and whether it was effective,” he wrote. ... More »

More ominously: a political movement that’s willing to take power through terrorist violence — which the far right threatens constantly, and delivers on often ... More »

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To not provide family planning is an infringement of human rights", More »

Current law now creates a presumption of privacy in our phone calls, emails and internet records, and they say that companies have to keep them private unless there’s an ... More »

Sure, he’s all for buying the elections, but when the bill for democracy comes up, Dave’s always in the men’s room. More »

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The political logic works, for three-six months. If local oil production rises, that MUST reduce “high” gas prices (a blatant ... More »

What we saw in the Deepwater Horizon disaster was a string, one decision after another, eight or nine of them, that were—that seemed, from an observer standpoint, to be ... More »

It’s not just the government misusing it, but it’s also people working in it, looking at it, and using it in different ways. They have no effective way of monitoring ... More »

Mr. Romney constantly talks about job losses under Mr. Obama. Yet all of the net job loss took place in the first few months of 2009, that is, before any of the new ... More »

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Doesn’t the wealth belong to the super-rich? Didn’t they earn it fair and square? Isn’t that the way it’s always been? Not by a long shot. The amount of ... More »

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Shaken Democrats dived for cover and threw Rosen under the campaign bus. —- The real issue is whether Mitt, a tycoon who has been swathed in an ... More »

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I doubt “ignorance” was ever “bliss,” as if what you didn’t know couldn’t hurt you. Today, with all the rage against expertise, ... More »

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15 states still tax families with incomes that are at, or below, the federal poverty line — currently $23,018. More »

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The crucial point about both of these explanations is that they stand Mr. Christie’s narrative about himself on its head. The governor poses as a man willing to make hard ... More »