In July 2011 the United States Postal Service (USPS) management announced it would rapidly close 3600 local post offices and eventually as many as 15,000. ...
By Stacy Mitchell and David Morris For years Goldman Sachs gave only a tiny fraction of its profits, less than 1 percent, to charity. Then...
In 2009, when Congress passed the health care bill, only one Republican voted in favor. In 2010, with opposition to the new health care law...
A month before the 1932 election, Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Portland, Oregon to deliver a speech about government and governance. Some 80 years later, his...
For several decades the United States stood alone among industrialized country in still allowing criminals to be put to death. In the last 20 years,...
In 1985 the United States was home to 24 airlines. Today there are 7. The Justice Departments under Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush II and...
“Caterpillar has pioneered a two-tier wage system in which workers hired after a certain date are consigned to a significantly lower wage scale than others...
In September 2012 the Library Board of Pulaski County raised property taxes $1 per year for a typical homeowner to maintain the existing level of...
Our attitude toward medical marijuana has unfolded like a sisyphean tragedy in three acts. Act I: The People Press Their Case, Again and Again In...
The gridlock that plagues Washington leads many, fairly or unfairly, to lump together the two parties and declare a pox on both their houses. But...
For 225 years the U.S. Post Office has been the most admired and ubiquitous manifestation of government. From 1789 until the 1960s, the Cabinet level...
In his 1996 State of the Union Address Democratic President Bill Clinton famously declared, “the era of big government is over.” And during his tenure...
I’m not saying it’s time to break out the champagne and start chanting, “The people united will never be defeated”. But the past few weeks...
Back in 1977 Mother Earth News asked ILSR to write a column called Local Self-Reliance. Over the next several years we ended up writing more...
“When the post office is closed, the flag comes down. When the human side of government closes its doors, we’re all in trouble.” Senator...