Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

Economics is not a morality play.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.