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Were A Country Deal With It

Again and again (and again and again) we hear -- and learn the hard way -- that our "keep government out of it" approach to economic and manufacturing policy is hurting us. The countries that see themselves as countries and therefore have national strategies -- where...

Non-Aggression Tack

EJ Dionne thinks that Democrats should be wary of getting too cocky because the Obama lead is fragile and the Republicans might just decide to be sane before the election: [T]he GOP's self-correction in Virginia is also a warning for Democrats. Republicans, now aware...

9 Crazy Things Mitt Romney Believes

I believe for every drop of rain that falls, A flower grows. Tom Jones Mitt Romney’s economic address at Ford Field in Detroit received more attention for the empty seats in the cavernous field than for the similarly vacant words in his address. But with the speech...

Progressive Breakfast - 2/27/2012

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: CEOs Too Big To...

Rick Santorum Political Hack

Now that my post-20th-GOP-debate waves of nausea have subsided, I'd like note one good thing that came of the whole ordeal. Their economic agendas are disastrously wrong-headed, and their attacks on President Obama go beyond borderline bigotry. But when the remaining...

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