By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
We’re still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America.
In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme … Read more »
By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
If you’re in a canoe that’s got a hole letting in water, do you throw the other passenger overboard who is helping you row, or do you just patch the hole and keep rowing?… Read more »
The Facts About the Tar Sands Pipeline
The official State Department process to determine whether the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is in the “national interest” is grinding along and should wrap up later this year, but that didn’t stop … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Whatever the final outcome in the Cyprus crisis — we know it’s going to be ugly; we just don’t know exactly what form the ugliness will take — one thing seems certain: for the time being, and … Read more »
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North Dakota’s Fetal Personhood Amendment
By Rep. Kathy Hawken, The Daily Beast
North Dakota’s State House passed a fetal personhood amendment, which would effectively ban abortion. Rep. Kathy Hawken explains why she voted against it – even though she’s pro-life.… Read more »
WASHINGTON — An hour before her colleagues gathered for their first vote of a new Congress, Senator Kelly Ayotte slipped into an empty Senate chamber to savor the grandeur of her legislative home. As Ms. Ayotte, a freshman Republican from … Read more »
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By Randall Amster, Occupy Monsanto
Monsanto’s near-monopoly gives the company the right to control access to a staple food item that is found in a wide range of consumer products.
Monsanto has yet another case pending in the court system, … Read more »
By Robert Reich, Reich’s Blog
Prominent Democrats – including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi – are openly suggesting that Medicare be means-tested and Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower adjustment for inflation.
This is … Read more »
