by Bill Scher | Apr 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The Tax Evaders Of...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 22, 2012 | Blog
In Sunday's NY Times Tom Friedman fights hard to keep his ranking at the top of blogger honor lists. Friedman's op-ed Down With Everything is a masterpiece of false equivalence. In it, Friedman identifies various problems with our political system while he obscures...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 22, 2012 | Blog
Over two years ago, the IRS announced an ambitious new effort to subject the super rich to unprecedentedly intensive audits. How's that effort working out? Most lawmakers would rather you not ask. Every once in a while, our plutocrats drop all democratic pretense and...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
Are we "going the way of Greece?" Should we cut spending to head off a "debt crisis" here? Conservatives in Europe and America say cutting back on what democracies do for their citizens is the solution to our economic troubles because it will bring economic growth...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein takes issue with my argument -- detailed in The Zombie Rises: The Return of Simpson Bowles -- that the American elite consensus on austerity will take us down the same path that Europe is heading towards recession. But he misses the...
