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President's Too-Modest Proposals Won't Prevent Another Ferguson
As a grand jury in New York decides not to indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner with an illegal choke-hold, the president's too-modest proposals fall short of the change America needs.
Fight For $15: Strikes Planned Thursday For Higher Wages
Workers in as many as 190 cities around the country are expected on Thursday to demonstrate for a $15-an-hour wage, building on the foundation of the fast-food strikes of the past year.
Ask President Obama To Fix Overtime Pay
Did you know that lots of workers who used to get overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week ? They used to, now they don't, and President Obama could fix this with the simple stroke of a pen.
Progressive Breakfast
War Over Nominees Weiss nomination a "proxy fight" between progressives and centrists. Politico: "...Warren and other progressives say the Obama administration continues to send up too many Wall Street-friendly nominees for top economic and regulatory jobs while...
A Democratic Party in Search of its Soul
The Democrats' problem in the 2014 election wasn't lacking a common message. It was that its leaders seemed to lack commonly held values. The party doesn't need to find its message. It needs to find its soul.
Chuck Schumer's Populist Concession
Sen. Chuck Schumer started a brawl when he blamed the Democrats' losses on President Obama's success in passing health care reform. Missed in the hubbub is the surprising populist concession of the senator from Wall Street.
Modest Disability Fund Fix Will Test The GOP's Appetite For Governing
The Social Security Disability Insurance fund will need to be replenished before then end of 2016. Will Republicans have the governance capacity to make a small adjustment to extend the life of the program?
The Senate 'Hell No' Caucus, Fed Up With White House's Wall Street Tilt
What would a fed-up caucus of Democrats (and independents) demand next? Imagine government policies that were not designed primarily to benefit the 1 percent and their corporations.
Chuck Schumer Is Wrong. This Is The Real Mistake From 2010.
Pursuing health care reform did not stop President Obama from building on the stimulus. Congress did. President Obama proposed $80B of additional stimulus in June 2010. Blame the 53 Senators who killed it.
Ferguson: A Perverted Process
After referring the case to the grand jury, and declining to recommend charges against Darren Wilson, St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch’s perversion of the grand jury process in Ferguson yielded an unsatisfying imitation of justice.
