Robert Kuttner — Huffington Post.
You couldn’t blame Paul Volcker for feeling ill-used. He was one of the first of the financial Brahmins to endorse Barack Obama, back when Hillary Clinton was a sure thing for the nomination. Volcker was … Read more »
The radical right has caught fire, as broad-based anger over the past year has ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.
The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic … Read more »
by WALTER BRASCH, PH.D. in Politics, Society. TheModerateVoice.com
Sarah Palin stood before an audience of 600 at the first Tea Party convention and in her twinkly home-spun rhetoric, declared we don’t need a professor of law but a commander-in-chief. As … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — New York Times.
“Don’t cut Medicare. The reform bills passed by the House and Senate cut Medicare by approximately $500 billion. This is wrong.” So declared Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, in a … Read more »
By BOB HERBERT — New York Times.
It was primarily a symbolic gesture. Way back in 1979, in the midst of an energy crisis, Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. They were used … Read more »
“Buyer’s remorse” is the way Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate Republicans’ fundraiser, gleefully refers to Wall Street moguls’ current disenchantment with the U.S. president they thought they had bought. They didn’t like it when Barack Obama, after a year of … Read more »
TruthDig.com — By E.J. Dionne
When word went out that Bill Clinton was hospitalized, the prospect that he was in danger made me wish that President Barack Obama had spent more time learning lessons that only Clinton can teach.
Yes, … Read more »
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By Paul Krugman — New York Times.
So here’s the situation. We’ve been through the second-worst financial crisis in the history of the world, and we’ve barely begun to recover: 29 million Americans either can’t find jobs or can’t find … Read more »
