What would a fairer more progressive tax and budget system look like? And why is there so much resistance to reforming tax policy in the United States?

New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman, New York State Assemblyman Darryl Towns, Nathan Newman Executive Director of Progressive States Network, and Washington State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles In 2001, as worker collectives in Argentina moved to take control of their factories, an editorial and activist collective, Lavaca, decided to chronicle their experiences.

Senator Lindsey Graham was a passionate critic of the Bush Justice attorneys during this past summer's Armed Services Committee hearings on interrogation. Lately, however, Graham seems to have had second thoughts on the matter. At a recent Judiciary subcommittee hearing investigating the torture memos, Graham mounted a feisty defense of Jay Bybee, John Yoo and the lawyers who provided legal cover for detainee abuse.

Back in 2002 the blogosphere was hardly something that attracted attention. That spring MyDD, Daily Kos, and Atrios launched. They were all small ventures to begin with, had few if any staffers, and operated on shoe string budgets. Today they're part of the media landscape.

The question of torture, and specifically the possible use of torture to establish a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, has been drowned out by the Washington drama of what Nancy Pelosi knew and when. In fact, none of the country’s five major newspapers has reported on an item that appeared in The Daily Beast on May 13—that Vice President Dick Cheney's office "suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner, a former intelligence

We all know that in the run up to the war in Iraq the media ran with the Bush administration’s claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Now the question of torture, and specifically the possible use of torture to establish a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, has been drowned out by the Washington drama of what Nancy Pelosi knew and when.

New credit card laws are upon us and despite headlines heralding a victory for consumers, no one in their right mind could agree. Efforts to cap interest rates (at 15%) were stopped cold by the Senate, which tells you an awful lot. It seems that banks are too big to fail, which means they pay almost ZERO interest on money we lend them--but working people and others stretched to the limit pay 20% and more.

Marshall Ganz a lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School on the peace movement. Where is it? After campaigning to elect Barack Obama who billed himself in part as an anti-war candidate, have they lost their momentum?

Carol Graham and her husband Major General Mark Graham lost their sons, both of whom were soldiers—one was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq and the other committed suicide. In 2008 alone, the Pentagon confirmed that 140 soldiers committed suicide, the highest number in decades.

That was quick: It took just three days for the titans of the healthcare industry to reveal the emptiness of their pledge to the Obama administration to save $2 trillion in healthcare costs over the next 10 years.