Robert Reich – The Huffington Post.
Apart from its extraordinary cost and regressive tilt, the tax deal negotiated between the president and the Republicans has another fatal flaw.
It confirms the Republican worldview.
Americans want to know what happened to … Read more »
By Paul Krugman – New York Times.
Back in 2001, former President George W. Bush pulled a fast one. He wanted to enact an irresponsible tax cut, largely for the benefit of the wealthiest Americans. But there were Senate rules … Read more »
By Robert Borosage – OurFuture.org
David Leonhardt in the NYT does a good service by laying out simply what $60 billion a year in tax cuts — the amount that will go to those earning over $250,000 if the Republicans … Read more »
By FEN MONTAIGNE
Los Angeles Times
On a November evening, with the spring sun in northern Antarctica slowly setting about 11 p.m., the view from the top of the Marr Ice Piedmont – a glacier nearly 40 miles long by … Read more »
By Howard Fineman – The Huffington Post.
There were some, including some in the media, who listened to President Obama’s account of this week’s meeting with Republicans and concluded that there was hope for a surprisingly bipartisan conclusion to the … Read more »
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN – New York Times.
While secrets from WikiLeaks were splashed all over the American newspapers, I couldn’t help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was … Read more »
ThinkProgress.org
Yesterday, after an exhaustive and at times controversial ten-month review of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen announced that the purported risk of repealing the discriminatory policy is … Read more »
ThinkProgress.org
Today, Congress sets a new record; in the last 40 years, it has never allowed extended unemployment benefits to expire when the unemployment rate was above 7.2 percent. But today, in an economy that faces a 9.6 percent unemployment … Read more »
By Mike Lux – Openleft.com
The Power of the President is the title of a great new report by the Center for American Progress on some of the things President Obama can and should do that do not require Congressional … Read more »
From TheNation.com
“Ideas don’t happen on their own. Throughout history ideas need patrons.” —Matt Kibbe, president of Freedom-Works, a tea party advocacy group, quoted in Jane Mayer’s piece on the Koch brothers in The New Yorker.
Almost half of the … Read more »
