The Huffington Post.
The middle class is getting whacked by the Great Recession. Fifteen million people are out of work, another 9 million workers can only find part-time jobs, and millions more have given up looking for work altogether. Those … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — New York Times.
We need to pinch pennies these days. Don’t you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has been the word from Republicans and conservative Democrats, who have rejected every suggestion that … Read more »
The New York Times.
By GAIL COLLINS
The story in American history I most like to tell is the one about how women got the right to vote 90 years ago this month. It has everything. Adventure! Suspense! Treachery! Drunken … Read more »
Robert L. Borosage — President, Institute for America’s Future
Huffingtonpost.com
“I still believe that this will be largely a referendum on the administration’s policies,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, explaining why the … Read more »
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Corporate-Sponsored Government
ThinkProgress.org
In an activist 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down a decades-long ban on the use of corporate money in elections with its ruling in the Citizens United case in January, opening the floodgates to … Read more »
ThinkProgress.org
The economic meltdown of 2008 grew out of a foreclosure crisis, as Wall Street banks drove lenders to make loans that were then securitized and sold around the world, in an unregulated slew of credit products. This inflated a … Read more »
New York Times.
Until Wednesday, the thousands of same-sex couples who have married did so because a state judge or Legislature allowed them to. The nation’s most fundamental guarantees of freedom, set out in the Constitution, were not part of … Read more »
By Bill McKibben — LA Times.
Environmentalists have tried the compromise route. It hasn’t worked.
Try to fit these facts together:
•According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest … Read more »
By Bill Press, Tribune Media Services
You’ve heard of the gang that couldn’t shoot straight? Barack Obama’s the man who can’t shoot straight. His first 20 months have zipped by with nothing to show for them. He’s broken every promise … Read more »
By DAVID STOCKMAN – New York Times.
IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The nation’s public debt — if … Read more »
