Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written by corporate lawyers and lobbyists. He would give corporations the key to the treasury while he gets the authority to fast track another hammering of working people and the environment. Yet the only people who get a real tongue-lashing from this President's White House are progressives around town who dare to call him on the carpet for abandoning his promises.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps.