Stories by Andrew Leonard

Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon. On Twitter, @koxinga21. subscribe to Andrew Leonard's feed

Posted on: Nov 28, 2012, Source: Salon

A Texas student believes her school's chipped ID cards are a violation of her civil liberties. She's right.

Posted on: Nov 24, 2012, Source: Salon

From Plymouth Rock to Thanksgiving at Best Buy: The Puritan ethic went spectacularly astray, all for an iPad mini.

Posted on: Nov 9, 2012, Source: Salon

The bankers are whining big-time. Their favorite son lost, and their chief enemy won. Here's what needs to happen.

Posted on: Oct 20, 2012, Source: Salon

Farmers are cashing in on a hungry world. Everyone else is struggling to find a job.

Posted on: Sep 11, 2012, Source: Salon

Their only substantive policy proposals require spending cuts on a level that would surely boost unemployment by cutting government jobs and subtracting government demand from the economy.

Posted on: Aug 10, 2012, Source: Salon

The Justice Department will not prosecute the investment bank for mortgage fraud.

Posted on: Jul 31, 2012, Source: Salon

A new report details their excesses -- including an average CEO salary of $7.3 million.

Posted on: Apr 6, 2012, Source: Salon

President Obama has fought hard to ease the student-debt burden, but Republicans threaten his fragile gains.

Posted on: Jan 26, 2012, Source: Salon

The American middle class might not be making iPads and iPhones, but they sure are buying a lot of them

Posted on: Jan 11, 2012, Source: Salon

Pennsylvania's GOP governor announces plans to make it tougher to get food stamps.

Posted on: Nov 4, 2011, Source: Salon

The movement to make sure our money serves our own values rather than the bottom line of huge banks will only gain energy as small victories accumulate.

Posted on: Nov 3, 2011, Source: Salon

Most Americans can rightfully complain, ‘I pay more federal income taxes than General Electric, Boeing, DuPont, Wells Fargo, Verizon, etc., etc., all put together.’