By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN — New York Times.
As I listened to Denmark’s minister of economic and business affairs describe how her country used higher energy taxes to stimulate innovation in green power and then recycled the tax revenues back … Read more »
By FRANK RICH — New York Times.
AS we say farewell to a dreadful year and decade, this much we can agree upon: The person of the year is not Ben Bernanke, no matter how insistently Time magazine tries to … Read more »
By Robert L. Borosage. Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future
You know the Dickens: It’s a “tale of two cities,” “the best of times and the worst of times.” On Wall Street, the big banks, basted with public succor, … Read more »
Editorial — New York Times.
The $154 billion jobs bill passed by the House last week will allow the 217 Democrats who voted for it to tell their constituents that they care about unemployment. But it’s unlikely to do much … Read more »
By MAUREEN DOWD — New York Times.
Flying over the waves of snow-covered mountains that make Afghanistan a natural fortress and a sinkhole for empires, it’s impossible not to think of Osama’s escaping from Tora Bora as one of the … Read more »
By Jacob S. Hacker — The New Republic
Now that the core demand of progressives has been removed from the Senate health care bill–namely, the public health insurance option–should progressives continue to support the effort?
For me, the question is … Read more »
By Robert Borosage — OurFuture.org
Enjoy the health care debate? Wait until the Senate takes on the big banks. It already looks like déjà vu all over again. Democrats, bloodied from self-inflicted wounds in the health care debate, may well … Read more »
by Daniel Luzer — Washington Monthly
Virtually everywhere in the world people tend to be more educated than their parents. This is no longer true in the United States. A report by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — New York Times
When I first began writing for The Times, I was naïve about many things. But my biggest misconception was this: I actually believed that influential people could be moved by evidence, that they … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — New York Times.
Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, recently had some downbeat things to say about our economic prospects. The economy, he warned, “confronts some formidable headwinds.” All we can expect, he said, is “modest … Read more »
