America is a nation of Great Generation citizens, a lost generation of workers and a failed generation of self-centered and small-minded operators in business, government and finance who appear incapable of leading the nation.

I will suggest below a grand compromise to create jobs that is currently beyond the imagination...

President Obama should reflect on what has gone wrong with his presidency. Then his economic speech after Labor Day, which should have been given long ago, and should be given before Labor Day, must be far bolder and more aggressive than any words this president has ever spoken about jobs.

Let me be the first to propose a national movement to draft Al Gore for president in 2016, carry the banner of the New Frontier heritage of the Democratic Party, and mobilize to elect true Democrats to the House and Senate in 2012.

On the playing field of national politics,...

The gathering storm of a recession for the nation and a depression for tens of millions of our neighbors threatens America with the danger of a lost decade of crushing economic pain. President Obama and Congress can save the nation from this fate by reaching a new agreement to lower...

Congratulations to the Tea Party for a great victory. Congratulations to President Obama and Democrats for another brilliantly executed surrender. Condolences to the jobless whose plight will become even worse after this deal. Condolences to the American economy which will be damaged by this deal.

Let's be clear: Speaker Boehner...

Washington is an island drowning in its own self-interest, surrounded by a hurting and unhappy nation of deeply patriotic citizens who hunger for shared national purpose but find our politics to be sickening, insulting and corrupted.

Today huge numbers of the workers of our nation are jobless. The finances of...

Here is one creative suggestion to solve one of the great problems of the Obama presidency:

President Obama should hire a Hollywood agent to negotiate on his behalf with Republicans in Congress.

I have been in this town for some time, and I never seen a president who is less...

When the full truth is told about the secret deals that will define the fiscal future of America and the fate of programs at the heart of the Democratic Party heritage, it will be clear that Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is the most important leader in Washington carrying the torch,...

The extreme hard-line attitude of many Republicans has significantly raised the prospects for a national default and rating agency downgrades that would sweep across the nation and many states, causing an economic cataclysm and public outrage unlike anything ever seen in the history of the republic.

If the deficit talks...

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) tried to make a bipartisan budget deal with President Obama. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) stabbed Boehner in the back in an act of leadership disloyalty that I literally cannot remember happening with congressional leaders of either party in my lifetime.

I have worked...

Last Friday, Americans endured another punishing jobs report. Virtually no new jobs were created in America in June.

Last Sunday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the nation that many Americans will suffer from the hardest economic times of their lives for a long time to come.

Ronald Reagan...

Let me renew my call in a recent column that groups and individuals concerned about the economic future of the nation should rally millions of people in Washington on Labor Day.

It is time for change. It is time for jobs. It is time to rise against Republican attacks against...

I have recently written a series of columns about jobs with titles such as "An angry dissent," and today's disastrous numbers are a political game changer. All incumbents of both parties are threatened if jobs are not created in large numbers by election day 2012.

This is one of the...

When President Obama meets congressional leaders about the debt ceiling, I hope a powerful presence in the room will be the spirit of Henry Clay, who was a great Speaker of the House, the great compromiser in the Congress and a great hero of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

Many of America's largest global companies are lobbying hard for a tax holiday to repatriate to the U.S. nearly $1 trillion that they have amassed from foreign business. This plan as proposed will almost certainly not be enacted. The president and Congress will not agree to support a giant windfall...

It is time to take America back for the ideals that we stand for as a nation. It is time for wealthy progressives to answer wealthy rightists and give strong support to Majority PAC, which is battling the save the Democratic Senate, and House Majority PAC, which is battling to...

Supporters of Made in the USA jobs should organize a massive Labor Day march on Washington as the 2012 campaign begins in earnest. Let's take back America from the futility of punishing joblessness. Let's begin with a million men coming to Washington, alongside a million women, waving millions of American...

President Obama should address the nation from the Oval Office, calling for a bipartisan deal to create more jobs in 2011 and lower the deficit beginning in 2012. He should do this now. Leaders lead. Strong presidents use the bully pulpit to define the debate and rally the nation to...

On behalf of the 15.9 percent of Americans who compose the real jobless rate and their moms, dads, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters who compose the 30 percent of Americans suffering misery from unemployment, I write this angry dissent against the culture of callousness of official Washington, which is doing...

I have spent a lifetime advocating campaign reform, and do so today. I also support Democratic groups such as Priorities USA, House Majority PAC and Majority PAC and their partner groups that accept large donations from undisclosed donors. Here's why:

The campaign finance law should be changed, but until it...