Don’t Let Corporations Off the Tax Hook
Taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize corporate tax dodgers or bloated CEO salaries.
Politicians Talk Tough About Obscene Executive Pay, But Where Are the Fixes?
Obama and McCain are both taking whacks at overpaid CEOs, but their solutions fall short.
We All Pay for Wall Street
A recent Government Accountability Office study found that two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005. These same companies reported trillions of dollars in earnings.
The Real Crisis in Pakistan
Hint: Its not religious extremists.
The Great Reckoning Is Here
A corrosive problem lies at the root of our economic instability: our society and economy are rapidly polarizing.
Trickle-Up Economics: New Report Reveals Staggering Global Wealth Concentration
A new business study on global household wealth documents how the world’s wealth is continuing to concentrate in the pockets of the awesomely affluent.
Missing Words For The New Trade Debate
Democrats need to take an axe to the Bush Administration’s trade policies.
A Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2008
As Congress works to balance the budget and find a solution to the Iraq crisis it must also focus on a different kind of budget balancing.
Bush’s Economic Invasion of Iraq
U.S. corporations march into Baghdad, at the expense of self-determination.
“Energy Bill Removes Local Say in Siting Dangerous LNG Facilities”
Congress is about to enact an energy bill that would severely limit the power of coastal states and municipalities to veto construction of massive — potentially dangerous — liquefied-natural-gas (LNG) terminals in their harbors.
Poverty in Africa isn’t History — or Destiny
Africa’s expectations were quite clear: nothing short of a comprehensive treatment of debt, trade and development finance, along with removal of the constraints that have held back the continent’s growth and progress.
“Iraq: Restoration of Integrity”
Watching them blatantly abdicate their responsibility in the run-up to the Iraq War was almost as difficult as watching most of America let them get away with it.
“Bush’s Free-Trade Pact is a Heavy Lift”
While the Bush administration still aspires to ward off defeat, it is becoming increasingly clear that its failure to pass the Central American Free Trade Agreement represents the latest in a series of setbacks for its sputtering trade agenda.
“Debt Relief a Big Victory for Activists”
Observers have often remarked in recent years that globalization demonstrators have won the moral argument about trade and development, yet have not been able to translate their positions into policy.
“Korea’s Slow-Motion Reunification”
For 50 years, aside from the occasional defector, it was impossible to cross the demilitarized zone dividing the Korean Peninsula.