by Jeff Bryant | Jan 23, 2013 | Education
It was hard for a progressive not to get a chocolate high from President Obama's inauguration speech. Indeed it was full of treats: a "dramatic and sweeping argument for equality" . . . "a commitment to community and the common good" . . . "the most liberal speech of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
The election is over, but right-wingers are back at it with another big, out-of-context lie. This time they are claiming that Hillary Clinton said something that she did not say. There's an immediate context and a bigger context, both wildly distorted. As the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
In his review of Jared Diamond's new book, David Brooks is appropriately horrified by the stories of tribal women who were left to die rather than be cared for by their communities. He's so horrified, in fact, that he seems to reject Diamond's core thesis that these...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2013 | Economy
When you hear anyone from the big multinationals or Wall Street using the word "reform," watch out! The way they use the word, it means give them more and We, the People get less. They want to "reform" Social Security, "reform" Medicare and "reform" the income tax...
by Digby | Jan 23, 2013 | The Sequester
When it comes to beating back extremists, I'm all in favor of living to fight another day, so the idea of kicking the can down the road on some horrible debt deal never seems like the worst thing that could happen. But I can't figure out why everyone seems to believe...
