I just saw a news article that reported the Obama administration's budget director has issued instructions to each of the federal agencies to prepare for 5-10 percent budget reductions.

 

I, like many, have been mesmerized by the inability of our elected officials to compromise on anything during this restive summer in Washington.

The deadly train wreck in eastern China in late July has provoked public outrage in the country.

The August issue of Mother Jones magazine asks a relevant question: Corporate profits are better than ever. So why are you, and pretty much everyone else, having to work harder and harder, for less and less?