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Obama Headlines Climate Summit Obama nudges China in U.N. climate summit address. NYT: "Declaring that the United States and China — the world’s two largest economies and largest polluters — bear a 'special responsibility to lead,' Mr. Obama said, 'That’s what big...
Who Gets Rich Harvesting Burger King and the American Economy?
As fast-food workers across the country strike for decent pay, Burger King is still preparing to abandon the US as their home country. How does a burger company get flipped like this and who gets rich when it happens?
How Capping Carbon Can Create Millions Of Jobs
It's important to know we can save the planet without much, if any, net cost. It's also important to know we can save the planet and create millions of jobs, if we are willing to pay for it.
After People’s Climate March, Thousands Re-Kindle Occupy Wall Street
On Monday, a day after an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 people participated in the People’s Climate March in New York, a smaller group of activists set out to shut down Wall Street.
Administration's New Rules For Companies Renouncing Citizenship
Corporate taxes used to be 46 percent. Corporations played an extortion game, saying lower our taxes or we'll move out of the U.S. The U.S. gave in and "reformed" the tax rate to 35 percent. Now the corporations are back for more.
GOP Defrauds Voters
Voter ID laws prevent voting by people Republicans detest, the derided “47 percent” that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spit on. Republicans are robbing citizens of the fundamental right to vote. It’s criminal.
100 Zephyrs: Why The Left Must Challenge Corporate Democrats
Bill Scher concludes that there are only minor differences within the "Democratic family" which are best resolved without “war”-like primary challenges. It’s an attractive vision. Unfortunately, its also wrong.
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No, Zephyr, Democrats Don't Need to Have a Civil War
Is Zephur Teachout strategically correct when she says an army of primary challengers is the wisest way to maximize liberal influence within the Democratic Party? Recent history suggests not.
Progressive Breakfast
Treasury Begins Inversion Crackdown Treasury issues new rules to curtail inversions. Time: "[Secretary] Lew announced a new set of measures meant to make inversions less appealing to U.S. companies, including by eliminating some of the ways those companies gain access...
Five Steps To A Family-Friendly Economy
As the White House holds a Summit on Working Families today, here are five policies with broad popular support that could make a family-friendly economy a reality.
