By Amy Goodman, Guardian UK
The failed effort to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is widely seen as a crisis for the labor movement, and a pivotal moment in the 2012 US presidential election season. Walker launched a controversial effort … Read more »
By Robert Borosage
That Gov. Scott Walker survived the recall in Wisconsin is a tragic setback for the stunning citizen’s movement that challenged his extremist agenda in Wisconsin.
Its implications are likely to be exaggerated by the right, and underplayed … Read more »
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
P Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BP, Chevron, WalMart, and billionaires Charles and David Koch are launching a multi-million dollar TV ad-buy Tuesday blasting President Obama over the national debt.
Actually, I don’t know who’s … Read more »
By Scott Keyes, ThinkProgress
Voter ID will not be in effect for today’s recall vote in Wisconsin, but that won’t stop last year’s anti-voter bill from disenfranchising thousands of students across the state.
A year ago, Wisconsin Republicans pushed through … Read more »
By Decca Aitkenhead, Guardian UK
05 June 12
The American economist has a plan to escape the financial crisis, and it doesn’t involve austerity measures or deregulating the banks. But will policy-makers, including our coalition government, heed his advice?
By … Read more »
By Ari Berman, Rolling Stone
Imagine this: a Republican governor in a crucial battleground state instructs his secretary of state to purge the voting rolls of hundreds of thousands of allegedly ineligible voters. The move disenfranchises thousands of legally registered … Read more »
By Robert Reich
The White House must be telling itself there are still five months between now and Election Day, so the jobs picture could brighten. After all, we went through a similar mid-year slump in 2011 but came out … Read more »
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog 5-30-12
True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burdens of keeping America going.
Those who earn tens of millions of dollars a year but pay less than 14 … Read more »
GOP Super PACs Plan $1 Billion Spending Blitz
By Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, Politico
republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives – including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue … Read more »
By Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has ordered the state to purge all “non-citizens” from the voting rolls prior to November’s election. But that list compiled by the Scott administration is so riddled with errors that, in … Read more »
