By James Riley
Last week the Senate Finance Committee rejected proposals from Sen. Rockefellor (D-WV) and Sen. Schumer (D-NY) to create a public option to compete with private insurance companies. Schumer’s proposal, also known as the “level playing field” approach, … Read more »
By Bill Scher
At today’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs cited new support from prominent Republicans outside of Washington, and said of those inside Washington, “They are wildly out of step with their constituents.”
An idle boast? Not … Read more »
ThinkProgress.org.
“With one acre of tropical forest disappearing every second and the rate and severity of global climate change accelerating,” the bipartisan Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests declared, “there is the serious need for the U.S. to take a … Read more »
I’ve written several posts about why regulation alone is not enough to curb health insurance company abuses (Get Sick. See Health Insurance Vanish. Watch States Fail to Curb Insurance Company Practice.; Nothing Intimidates Health Insurers Like the Public Health Insurance … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN — New York Times.
There was what President Obama likes to call a teachable moment last week, when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago’s bid to be host of the 2016 Summer Games.
“Cheers erupted” at the … Read more »
By Matthew Jaffe
WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds were healthy, a government watchdog states in a … Read more »
By ROGER COHEN — The New York Times.
NEW YORK — Back from another trip to Europe, this time Germany, where the same dismay as in France prevails over the U.S. health care debate. Europeans don’t get why Americans don’t … Read more »
By David Sirota.
Since General Stanley McChrystal released a report demanding a massive military escalation in Afghanistan, two things have happened: The Obama administration has taken time to review all its options, and the rest of Washington has collectively freaked … Read more »
By Bob Herbert
Maybe the economic stress has been too much. Looking back at the past few months, it’s fair to wonder if the country isn’t going through a nervous breakdown.
The political debate has been poisoned by birthers, deathers … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Stocks are up. Ben Bernanke says that the recession is over. And I sense a growing willingness among movers and shakers to declare “Mission Accomplished” when it comes to fighting the slump. It’s time, I keep hearing, … Read more »
