by Dave Johnson | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
In the news, Republicans are running ads attacking Obama for "sending taxpayer dollars" out of the country in the stimulus… They depend on the news media to cover with as a "both sides do it" story, which it will, leaving voters confused and misinformed. The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
On Wednesday the stock market remained in the doldrums, thanks largely to the release of Federal Reserve June meeting minutes that revealed that at least some members of the Fed believed the economy needs "further policy stimulus," but the Fed nonetheless took no...
by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
The booing of Mitt Romney at the NAACP convention is just the latest hilarious result of Republican presidents and presidential candidates straining to court the African-American vote at the annual event. Here's a trip down Memory Lane… 1981: President Ronald...
by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
My argument that liberals should bargain with corporations and not outright fight them, in the New York Times opinion piece "How Liberals Win," is not terribly populist, for better or worse. And I expected people on the populist left would not readily accept it. But I...
