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Wading Outside the CEO Pay Reform Mainstream
To be effective, the lead executive pay reformer in Congress is now understanding, executive pay reform needs to go well beyond empowering shareholders. Barney Frank, the colorful Massachusetts Democrat, may be the most caustic quipster in Congress. Ask the...
Progressive Breakfast: Battle Lines Drawn
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Health Care Battle Lines Drawn For Summer Brawl Major grassroots effort with pushback against insurance lobby. NYT: "…President Obama, Congressional...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/3/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Health Care Battle Lines Drawn For Summer Brawl Major grassroots effort with pushback against insurance lobby. NYT: "...President Obama, Congressional...
Progressive Breakfast: Progressive Wheaties Edition
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. House Progressives Stand Up To Blue Dogs Progressive Caucus fires shot at Blue Dog compromise. The Nation's John Nichols: "The compromises on health care...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/31/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. House Progressives Stand Up To Blue Dogs Progressive Caucus fires shot at Blue Dog compromise. The Nation's John Nichols: "The compromises on health care...
Free-Market Conservatives Are Just Wrong
There are things you can see in front of your face, and then there are things that conservative “free market” ideologues tell you. One example is when they talk about the minimum wage. (An increase in the national minimum wage goes into effect today.) Conservative...
Progressive Push-Back On Health Care Reform
The Progressive Caucus and its allies are holding a press conference this afternoon to emphasize their bottom line on health care: If it doesn't have a strong public option, it does not get their vote. In fact, Progressive Caucus Chairman Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.,...
Firing Back on the Birthers: Where's Their Evidence?
Amid the huge media pile-on that's gradually taking down the Birther fantasy, nobody's actually bothered to point out that almost every element of their argument is based on a near-total ignorance about how U.S. citizenship works. There's nothing like moving abroad...
The Debtor's Dance: the U.S.-China Exchange
Obama's opening speech set the stakes: "The relationship between the United States and China will shape the 21st century, which makes it as important as any bilateral relationship in the world." (emphasis added) The U.S., the world's largest debtor, met this...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/30/2009
"Deal" Is Announced, And Congress is "Gone 'Til September" Call it a call it a breakthrough, or call it a betrayal (and it will be called many things during the next month or so), but a deal has been made on Capitol Hill, concerning health care reform. Whether it's a...
