It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.