by Jeff Bryant | Jan 17, 2013 | Education
Last week, celebrated statistics guru Nate Silver laid a bugger on advocates for test-driven education, the current policy fad that enamors Republicans and Democrats alike who fancy themselves as "education reformers." In an online conversation at the aggregator site...
by David Shuster | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog
As our nation promotes representative democracy around the world, it is time to finally bring it to those who don't have it here in the United States -- the citizens of Washington, D.C. As we discussed recently on Take Action News, the 618,000 residents of the...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog
The Senate is completely broken, with a minority obstructing everything. Minority. Obstructing. Every. Thing. Everything. There were more than 380 filibusters in just the last few years! In a few days the Senate will vote on fixing this and making them talk if they...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 17, 2013 | Minimum Wage
F. Scott Fitzgerald warned, "There are no second acts in American lives." And for recent American presidents, second acts have been brutal. The hope of the first act succumbs to the karmic reckonings of the second. Nixon cast out by his crimes in Watergate. Reagan...
by Bill Scher | Jan 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Business Roundtable Attacks The Elderly OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Rich CEOs have used every tax loophole in the book to add to their own wealth, have been bailed out directly or indirectly by the American taxpayer, and have rigged corporate...
