Take a look at the 2013 Edition of the website called Executive PayWatch from the AFL-CIO. This site, active since 1997, helps drive awareness of the huge wage gap between CEO pay and the average employee. Compare your pay to the pay of top executives. Heck, you might even make more than they do! (Hint: [...]

From the moment he was sworn in as president, what’s bothered many conservatives most about Barack Obama was that he was a Black man who seemed pathologically incapable of “knowing his place.” Conservatives from Peggy Noonan to (most recently) Grover Norquist have complained about that President Obama doesn’t “know his place”, and can’t be put [...]

Like I said in the first post in this series, Obama didn’t waste time talking to Republicans in his inaugural address because he didn’t need to talk to them. President Obama’s biggest accomplishments in his first term happened without their support and despite their opposition. And even though Republicans did everything within their power “make [...]

In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that Republicans who were incensed that President Obama had nothing to say to them in his inaugural address should be far more worried the possibility that the president realizes he doesn’t need to spend time and energy reaching out to Republicans. After all,  not only was Obama [...]

MORNING MESSAGE: As Federal Prosecutors Cash In, Big Bankers Go Unpunished OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “We needed heroes after the financial crisis. Instead we got bureaucrats, compromisers, and perhaps something much worse. Federal law enforcement officials, our ‘thin gray line’ against banker crime, were charged with restoring the balance of justice and reducing the threat of future [...]