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American Betrayal, Sponsored By Intel
If trade expert Clyde Prestowitz’s latest book, “The Betrayal of American Prosperity,” were a television series, one segment would open with this voiceover: “This episode of ‘The Betrayal of American Prosperity’ is brought to you by Intel.” A group of Chinese workers...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/19/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Attempt To Silence Populist...
What Happened To The Progressive Majority?
On a day in which voters in Arkansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania are heading to the polls in what is being widely described as an anti-politician, anti-government rage, and with a particularly strident strain of conservatism portrayed as on the ascendancy, it might...
Stimulus Shifts To Reverse -- Where Is The Congress?
The stimulus is running out, millions lose health insurance in 12 days as COBRA subsidies start to run out, unemployment benefits also start running out, and unemployment is rising. Foreclosures are up. At the same time out-of-money states are laying off hundreds of...
Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Banksters
So much for telling kids to "always tell the truth." It turns out, toddlers who tell lies do better as adults. Whether this is surprising news about child development, or a sad statement about the kind of society we live in depends on how you define...
Progressive Breakfast: Reid Moves To Cloture
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Amendment Battles Still On Tap...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/18/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Amendment Battles Still On Tap...
In Defense Of The Volcker Rule
Some version of Wall Street reform is going to pass the Senate this week. The question now is how strong that reform will be. There are still three crucial battles to be waged, all of which would significantly change the way Wall Street does business. We will not fix...
Wall Street: Terminators in the Casino
Anyone who's ever seen a Terminator movie knows that civilization ended when a computer system called "Skynet" came alive and tried to terminate the human race by starting a nuclear apocalypse. After last week's "flash crash" on Wall Street, they might have wondered...
What Thomas Jefferson Said about Elena Kagan and Juvenile Life Without Parole
Today’s news is the Supreme Court decision that juveniles cannot be confined in prison without the possibility of parole for offenses committed while juveniles (in this case, a very clumsy store robbery by a 16 year old with a crowbar). Yesterd ay’s news was the...
