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If the United States were to update the way we measure poverty, we’d find that about 28 percent of American families of four are now living in poverty.

Tom Israel provides a roundup of progressive electoral victories at the ballot box that could serve as a “signpost” for the 2012 elections.

The Occupy movement relies on people power, which has triumphed in Poland and elsewhere.

The Pentagon has too much hardware once thought necessary to defeat the Soviet Union.

An equitable tax system — paying for public services we all use, as well as offering support and a hand-up to those who’ve lost out in life’s lottery — should demand more of us.

It looks like voters across the country are having second thoughts about the tea party agenda, now that they have seen what it actually means in practice.

With unemployment topping 9 percent, the European economy sliding toward an abyss, and Lindsey Lohan posing nude for Playboy, Congress took time out to “reaffirm” In God We Trust as our official national motto.

Walmart is displaying its incredibly shriveled ethical center by whacking the already meager health care benefits that hundreds of thousands of its workers count on.

You may have noticed the collateral damage.

At last, we Americans are safe.

Corporations have achieved total tax loophole parity with America’s individual super rich.

William A. Collins, Donald Kaul, and Gerald Scorse look at the intersection of wealth and taxes.

This administration is deporting immigrants at a record pace.

It’s hard for them to protect their institutions when neither their school districts nor the legal system shield them from retaliation.

The supercommittee’s members shouldn’t accept campaign contributions from lobbyists representing foreign governments or companies.

Windfalls from gambling in the Wall Street casino should be taxed at the same rate as wages.

It’s not fair to ask sacrifices only from those least able to afford it simply because they have the least political power.

The $7-billion reconstruction of the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland is in the hands of a state-subsidized Chinese company.

Millionaires, who rightfully are the target for paying more, want us to think that any changes in the tax code will mean that we’ll all be paying more too.

No moneybags, no service.