By GAIL COLLINS
Part of the price of keeping the government operating this week is another debate over the financing of Planned Parenthood. Whoopee.
At least it’ll give us a chance to reminisce about Senator Jon Kyl, who gave that … Read more »
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF — The New York Times.
President Obama in his speech on Wednesday confronted a topic that is harder to address seriously in public than sex or flatulence: America needs higher taxes.
That ugly truth looms over … Read more »
By Robert Borosage
On Wednesday, the President will lay out his principles for deficit reduction, responding to the Republican FY 2012 budget put forth by House Budget Chair Rep. Paul Ryan.
The Ryan plan is brazen and preposterous. It violates … Read more »
THINK PROGRESS — The Progress Report
by Faiz Shakir, Benjamin Armbruster, George Zornick, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, and Tanya Somanader
Today, President Obama will deliver a wide-ranging speech laying out a strategy to deal with the U.S. budget deficit. Although … Read more »
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet
Over the past month, General Electric has been held up as the pinnacle of corporate vampirism –– the world’s largest corporation in the world’s lowest tax bracket. But it’s not just GE that’s bilking the … Read more »
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.
Many commentators swooned earlier this week after House Republicans, led by the Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan, unveiled their budget proposals. They lavished praise on Mr. Ryan, asserting that his plan set … Read more »
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.
So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What’s the punch line? They were three of the five “expert witnesses” Republicans … Read more »
Robert Creamer – The Huffington Post.
Last week, the economy showed more evidence that the administration’s economic stimulus programs, rescue of the auto industry, investments in clean energy, extension of unemployment compensation, past aid to the states and other measures … Read more »
By BOB HERBERT – New York Times.
So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and police officers, and generally letting the … Read more »
THINK PROGRESS
The Progress Report
by Faiz Shakir, Benjamin Armbruster, George Zornick, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, Tanya Somanader, and Ian Millhiser
Ever since Chief Justice Roberts joined the Supreme Court, corporate America has treated his Court as its personal genie, … Read more »
