An article in Market Watch a couple of weeks ago, written by Steve Goldstein, indicates that declining productivity in America's marketplace is causing a change in the level at which unemployment rates are due to settle as the new norm. Currently we have 1.7% GDP growth, 1% job growth, and ...

I was invited by Tony Noel, organizer of the New Progressive Alliance, to sit on a steering committee with Cornell West, Jill Stein and three or four others almost two years ago to seek a candidate who would challenge Obama. The New Progressive Alliance at that time was seriously considering ...

I have been involved in a very deep and lengthy discussion with a friend, Kathleen Wells, who is sponsoring a petition to end mass incarceration in prisons around the country because of the hugely disproportionate impact they have on African Americans. Kathleen, an attorney and broadcast journalist for KCAA Radio in ...

It's very clear that the Republicans and Tea Party folks criticize Obama for ridiculous reasons that have very little substance, but we on the left, particularly those of us who describe ourselves as "progressive," criticize him too, but for entirely different reasons.  There are a number of strong supporters of ...

This coming Saturday March 19 represents a major test of the Revolution's resolve in Egypt to sustain itself and its goals.  This is the day when a referendum has been scheduled on proposed amendments to the constitution, which were submitted by a team three weeks ago, after ...