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Major news outlets, like the New York Times, seem to go out of their way to deny the incredible harm done to euro zone economies, and to the lives of tens of millions of people in these countries, as a result of needless austerity.

Public workers who lack any formal power to strike – but have the informal power not to work – are becoming a force in American politics and labor relations

America responded to the Gilded Age’s abuses of corporate power with antitrust laws that allowed the government to break up the largest concentrations. It is time to use antitrust again. We should break up the high-tech behemoths.

As the Times’ Badger has reported, the digital economy has been great for places like Seattle, New York, metropolitan Washington, and the other big talent hubs like San Francisco, Boston, and LA. But it’s left behind much of the rest of the country.

Now, the biggest generation is the Millennials, born between 1983 and 2000. They face a world that is richer and more unfair. Here's how they fix it.

12 Trump promises, and what's actually become of them.

Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it.

We need a New Democratic Party capable of organizing and mobilizing Americans in opposition to Donald Trump’s Republican party, which is about to take over all three branches of the U.S. government.

Designs, software, and patented ideas, which are at the core of Apple's business model, are a perfect vehicle for tax avoidance.

The real choice in the future is either a hugely expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people and stop insuring sick people. Or else a government-run single payer system.