As a regular user of United Airlines I have no sympathy whatsoever for a management system that someday is going to make me bust a blood vessel at a customer service counter after my third flight has been canceled in the same day.

Pretty much the whole sad story of Obama, War President of the Nobel Peace Prize is wrapped up by Glenn Greenwald, so no need to expend extra thought there.  This Greenwald is required reading on the foreign policy portion of the current rapid Democrat...

Dean Baker had a nice short bit called "Toyota's CEO Works for Less": The NYT told readers that GM may have trouble getting a new CEO because of the limits the government has imposed on CEO compensation. It would have been worth mentioning that the...

Obama's decision to escalate in Afghanistan was sad and stupid, and made stupider by the bollocks he talked in justifying the dumb murderous thing. There was "the waving of the bloody shirt" - the oldest presidential gesture in US histor - around ...

"Top" here means the White House and the Congressional leadership, whom Krugman describes as being pulled away from job creation and other recovery politics by the banks, who in a growing number of accounts have conquered the U.S. Government.   Max...

It's interesting to see the category "financial elites" used as a natural object by the New York Times. On top of that, Bob Herbert nicely summarizes the clearly visible problem with the current "recovery": It was the financial elites who took the...