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Are we headed towards banks too big to save? Check out Simon Johnson on "Geithner's Gamble" (below, emphasis added.) Big banks seem like Mr. Magoo of the old cartoons, blindly careening from one crack up to another, leaving ruin in their wake. Now they are headed back...

We are all under attack, from public employees in Wisconsin and several other states, to the DC budget-cutters (just a few weeks after giving a huge tax cut to the rich) killing off NPR, slashing the EPA, consumer protections and so many other things government does...

Speaker John Boehner is presently soliciting questions on YouTube and Twitter (using the hashtag #askthespeaker), and he will answer the ones which get the most votes from his YouTube page on Tuesday. I have a few. I bet you do too. * If you really believe that "we’re...

When Congress goes back into session next week, the Senate will be under pressure to compromise with the House on a sweeping set of cuts to the 2011 budget. But there is little room for compromise with a budget plan that in so many ways does serious harm to people and...

Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Originally posted at New Deal 2.0. Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), head of the House Budget Committee, says that reducing the federal...

Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » It’s illegal in America now to buy or sell a human being, but a recorded telephone conversation between a Republican governor and a guy he...

Last night on "The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann" I discussed why the Wisconsin fight matters to all of us, along with Think Progress' Zaid Jilani. Check out the clip below.