Robert Reich’s Blog
Congress returns next week to one of the fiercest and most important debates in recent memory — whether and to what extent the nation will provide health care to all Americans, and how we will reign in … Read more »
By Bernie Horn
It has come to this: Americans cannot get the health care reform we need without using the “reconciliation” process in the U.S. Senate. We can’t get 60 votes. Senator Kennedy’s seat will remain vacant for 5 months. … Read more »
By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Nate Carlile, Matt Duss, and Zaid Jilani
Last week, the Justice Department declassified a 2004 Inspector General’s report on the CIA’s interrogation program. According to the Washington Post, the report “describes … Read more »
By Robert Borosage
As Congress returns from its summer recess, President Obama, slipping in the polls, assailed on all sides by the carpers, faces a strategic choice: Lead the charge, rally Democrats, and push forward on his agenda, starting with … Read more »
By Roger Hickey:
Let’s get a few things straight:
Until last year, Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s health care bill (co-authored with with Rep. John Dingell) was a bill known as Medicare for All. Not expensive private insurance for some, but … Read more »
The Passing Of A Progressive ChampionThe Progress Report has produced a video tribute to Sen. Kennedy. Watch it here: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/26/kennedy-tribute/
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a “stalwart” of the Senate and a “liberal lion” who spent nearly half a century advancing … Read more »
By Mike Lux.
I take history very seriously, have studied it closely, and I am not given to hyperbole (as awful as George W. Bush was, for example, I still hesitate to join the many historians who call him the … Read more »
by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Nate Carlile, and Zaid Jilani
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced he will appoint a federal prosecutor to decide whether CIA interrogators broke the law in prisoner abuse cases. On … Read more »
by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Nate Carlile, Zaid Jilani, and Igor Volsky
Statement from Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta on the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy: “The progressive movement lost a hero … Read more »
Press Release of Senator Boxer
Boxer Statement on Passing of Senator Kennedy
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
“I was heartbroken to hear of Senator Ted Kennedy’s passing and my deepest sympathies go out to Vicki, his children and the entire Kennedy … Read more »
