Exclusive: For three decades, the United States has undertaken an extraordinary social experiment, incentivizing greed among the richest Americans by cutting their top tax rates in half or more. The results are now in from Ronald Reagan’s bold gamble and…
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Occupying the Heart of the Beast
From Boston with the “99 Percent”
The “99 Percent” movement arising across the United States represents the first major public manifestation of disgust and fury at the rampant greed that has concentrated the nation’s wealth with the top “One Percent.” Economic journalist Mark Provost reports on his…
Why Palestine Already Is a State
‘Sarah’s Key’: Enforcing Injustice
The Slippery Slope of Assassinations
Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran
US Pols Say the Darnedest Things
As American politics continues its sorry decline with many elected officials now sounding as goofy as any loud-mouth radio host there are more and more suggestions about the need for reform, as Michael Winship observes.