The second best thing that happened in November with President Barack Obama’s re-election was that Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan

Someone needs to tell Paul Ryan that his party—and the economic platform of austerity and plutocracy he crafted for it—lost a national election last year. Someone also needs to tell the Wisconsin Republican that he...

 Indebted America is in danger of turning into destitute Greece, or so congressional Republicans and conservative commentators have been warning us for years now. For many reasons, this is an absurd comparison—but it may

A prolonged confrontation over the nation's debt ceiling—unlike the "fiscal cliff," which provoked many scary headlines—could truly be grave for both America and the world. While press coverage often mentions the

 Unemployment is still too high, income is still too low and the recovery is still much too slow—but the United States is faring

When Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters that Mitt Romney's foreign investment accounts...