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How To Dump the Teabaggers
Tea bags are meant to be tossed out. They are useful, at most, once or twice in their lifetimes. Beyond that, they lose flavor and strength, eventually becoming weak as water itself. If kept around beyond their usefulness, they become unpleasant and even unhealthy, as...
Duck and Cover: The New Obama Program
"Our government," wrote Justice Lewis Brandeis, "is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example." And also by what its leaders frame as important. No one has greater ability to teach than the president with what...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/26/2010
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. Obama Compared To Hoover After...
Good Obama Middle Class Help. But What About Jobs?
The White House today announced its economic initiatives for middle class families, described as a preview of the State of the Union Address. They’re all good ideas and I hope every one of them passes. But something is missing. Mostly, the new initiatives don’t create...
State Of The Union As The Job Situation Gets Worse
Prediction: In the upcoming State of the Union speech President Obama is going to talk about jobs. (Just a hunch, let’s see if I’m right.) We’re in a jam where the economy is still shedding jobs, never mind creating enough jobs to start hiring people again. The...
How the President Can Reboot Health Care in the State of the Union Address
Let’s be realistic about our expectations for the State of the Union. We’re unlikely to see a newly-energized President trailing clouds of progressive glory, ascending the podium while the PA blares anthemic 70’s stadium-rock. That’s not his style. (If I’m wrong about...
Borosage on ABC: Obama Should Lay Down The Gauntlet
Bernanke Vote: Where Does Your Senator Stand?
Is your senator going to vote this week to re-appoint Ben Bernanke to run the Federal Reserve, without demanding any accountability for actions before and during the financial crisis? Let's find out today, so we know whom to target before the vote. We're asking...
Ten Lessons for Talking About Racial Equity in the Age of Obama
Experience from around the country shows that discussing racial inequity and promoting racial justice are particularly challenging today. Some Americans have long been skeptical about the continued existence of racial discrimination and unequal opportunity. But with...
