A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism….

Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can m….

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be ….

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others..

Money is power in American politics. It always has been..

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real..

The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and ….

The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything m….

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consens….

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys..

Efficiency obliterates identity.

The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend ….

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a rece….

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special plea….

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings ….

Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutio….

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back..

Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own ent….

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100..

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind..

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it..