From IPS-dc.org
Government must stop doling out ever-larger tax breaks to the superrich and vast corporations.
Have you heard? America is broke, according to many governors and lawmakers.
They’re calling for deep cuts in teacher pay, firing cops, slashing medical … Read more »
(Health.com) — Listening to your favorite tunes or funny jokes could lower your blood pressure, perhaps even as much as cutting salt from your diet or dropping 10 pounds, according to the preliminary results of a small study presented Friday … Read more »
By Amy Goodman – Truthdig.
More than 10,000 people converged in Washington, D.C., this past week to discuss, organize, mobilize and protest around the issue of climate change. While tax day tea party gatherings of a few hundred scattered around … Read more »
CHICAGO (Reuters Life!) – If the environmental movement has a high holiday, Earth Day is it.
The annual effort to raise public awareness about the environment and inspire actions to clean it up marks its 41st anniversary on Friday, coinciding … Read more »
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GeorgeLakoff.com
Last week, on April 13, 2011, President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the President’s speech as if it were only about budgetary details. But the speech … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN – The New York Times.
Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, sounds upset. And you can see why: President Obama, to the great relief of progressives, has called his bluff.
Last week, Mr. Ryan … Read more »
A few weeks ago, Senator Bernie Sanders released a list of the 10 companies worst at paying their fair share in taxes. We liked it, and our designer Gabe quickly put it into chart form and put it up on … Read more »
By LESLIE KAUFMAN – The New York Times.
Weeks after he was sworn in as governor of Maine, Paul LePage, a Tea Party favorite, announced a 63-point plan to cut environmental regulations, including opening three million acres of the North … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN – The New York Times.
Last week, President Obama offered a spirited defense of his party’s values — in effect, of the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society. Immediately thereafter, as always happens when … Read more »
