The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.