By PAUL KRUGMAN
Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention was a remarkable combination of pretty serious wonkishness — has there ever been a convention speech with that much policy detail? — and memorable zingers. Perhaps the best of … Read more »
By Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Given Mitt Romney’s business record as an outsourcer and tax avoider, and his desire to continue the failed economic policies of George W. Bush, President Obama should be 20 points ahead in the polls … Read more »
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By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
It is breathtaking impudence that Republicans should try to campaign on whether we are better off than were were in the last six months of the Bush administration. I can’t believe we are even arguing … Read more »
By Nicholas Confessore, Julie Creswell, David Kocieniewski, The New York Times
The New York attorney general is investigating whether some of the nation’s biggest private equity firms have abused a tax strategy in order to slice hundreds of millions of … Read more »
By Joseph Stiglitz, Guardian UK
If politicians and those around them do not pay their fair share of taxes, how can we expect that anyone else will?
itt Romney’s income taxes have become a major issue in the American presidential … Read more »
By MAUREEN DOWD
TAMPA, Fla.
MESSAGE: They care.
Republicans care deeply. They really do.
They care deeply about making us think that they care deeply.
That’s why they knocked themselves out producing a convention that was a colossal hoax.
They … Read more »
But don’t be fooled: Republicans aren’t just nostalgic for 1950s-style social barriers. They want to rebuild them
BY REBECCA TRAISTER
Among the most unvarnished sentiments expressed at the Republican Convention in Tampa this week was the disregard for the Obama … Read more »
