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In the debate about how we should produce energy, it is routinely said that coal is cheap and renewables are expensive, and therefore we must continue business as usual to protect our economy. And what does business as usual mean? According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration:

It’s not clear that it makes a difference whether protesters occupy Wall Street or Washington, since both places are dominated by an American wealth elite that has grown vastly richer and more powerful in the past few decades.

One of the biggest lies in American politics today, repeated almost daily by conservative leaders, is that the stimulus Congress passed in early 2009 was an utter waste of money.

NEW YORK -- In a new analysis released today, national policy center Demos announced a major milestone in its work to build a more inclusive democracy: Across five states, more than one million additional low-income Americans, the most vulnerable of “the 99%”, have filled out voter registration

According to Federal Reserve data, the Great Recession wiped out more than $16 trillion in household net worth, and more than two years into the recovery, households are still more than $7 trillion poorer than they were before the collapse.

With the failure (a foreseeable and eminently welcome development ) of the so-called

Proof that when laws to protect peoples’ democratic rights are put into practice, they can have a major impact on bringing more voices into the political process.

The supercommittee's failure is producing a predictable rash of handwringing about America's broken democracy.

Now that the supercommittee has closed it's doors, Congress can get on with the all-important work of extending two of the most powerful stimulus measures in effect today -- the reduced payroll tax and extended unemployment benefits. Attentive students of Washington's now perpetual budget saga will

Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifying last week Talk about a waste of taxpayer dollars.