Even with a new administration dedicated to doing it all differently, Americans still have little say over what is happening with our money.
The real scandal of AIG isn’t just that American taxpayers have so far committed $170 billion to … Read more »
As they charge through the eventful first 100 days, President Obama and his allies are racking up legislative victories. Soon they will have to win the votes of a new audience: men and women in black robes. As the former … Read more »
Yesterday, flanked by Nobel laureates, noted medical researchers, and a bipartisan group of members of Congress, President Obama signed an executive order undoing President Bush’s August 2001 directive banning federal funding for all but 20 embryonic stem (ES) cell lines. … Read more »
Dear Republican Leaders: The Republican Party has become the party dedicated to sabotaging the American future. Check out the sermon I just delivered about the Republican Party on CNN when being interviewed by D.L. Hughley — and/or read on.
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President Obama yesterday kicked off his ambitious goal of reforming health care and providing insurance to all Americans, the first major government effort at reform in 15 years. At the White House’s health summit, Obama pledged to pass comprehensive legislation … Read more »
The NBC-Wall Street Journal survey released yesterday is chock-full of numbers indicating that the public overwhelmingly likes President Barack Obama and approves of his efforts to once again set America on the right track. More than two-thirds (68%) have a … Read more »
During his confirmation hearings in January, Eric Holder promised that if he became attorney general, he would increase the Justice Department’s transparency. Specifically, he pledged to make public controversial memos the Bush administration fought to keep secret. Earlier this week, … Read more »
We can’t go back to the old economy. That economy — marked by booms and busts, Gilded Age inequality, declining wages, growing household debts, and unsustainable trade deficits — didn’t work very well for most Americans. President Obama is faced … Read more »
This past weekend, 12,000 activists from across the nation and around the world came to Washington D.C. for the “largest youth summit on climate change in history.” From mountain-top removal to toxic waste dumps, from green building to bike shares, … Read more »
If there’s one thing you can say with absolute certainty about Barack Obama as a politician, it is that he learns – and then improvises, adapts and overcomes, as Clint Eastwood rasps in Heartbreak Ridge. There is no better example … Read more »
