By Jacob Weisberg — Newsweek.com
Do you remember the Responsible Republicans? In the 1980s small herds of them still roamed around Washington. In 1982 they stampeded over Ronald Reagan’s veto of a tax increase designed to mitigate the fiscal harm … Read more »
By Mike Lux — Openleft.com
The stakes in the war over financial reform are deadly serious, but I also have to admit it is fun to watch. It has dawned on politicians of both parties that voters’ anger at Wall … Read more »
By Bill McKibben — The Washington Post.
Forty years in, we’re losing.
This weekend, when speakers at Earth Day gatherings across the country hearken back to the first celebration in 1970, they’ll recall great victories: above all, cleaner air and … Read more »
By Robert L. Borosage — Huffington Post.
The drumbeat about deficits has reached deafening levels. The president warns about “out of control” spending. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke calls for bringing deficits down. The opinion pages bristle with rants about the … Read more »
By Paul Krugman — New York Times
Last October, I saw a cartoon by Mike Peters in which a teacher asks a student to create a sentence that uses the verb “sacks,” as in looting and pillaging. The student replies, … Read more »
By Frank Rich — New York Times.
It’s kind of like that legendary stunt on the prime-time soap “Dallas,” where we learned that nothing bad had really happened because the previous season’s episodes were all a dream. We now know … Read more »
By Robert Kuttner — Huffington Post.
The SEC’s fraud case against Goldman Sachs could represent a turning point in the public understanding of the great financial collapse, its politics and its remedies. Or not.
Far-seeing critics such as Bill Black, … Read more »
Click here to read this article by “The Progress Report”:
http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/pr20100419/index.html… Read more »
By BOB HERBERT — New York Times.
With the marathon effort to overhaul the health care system behind us, it is time for the Obama administration to move quickly and powerfully to the monumental task of putting Americans back to … Read more »
By Paul Krugman — New York Times.
Health reform is the law of the land. Next up: financial reform. But will it happen? The White House is optimistic, because it believes that Republicans won’t want to be cast as allies … Read more »
