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"Rich People, Government People" Playing Games With People's Lives
Republicans flat-out bribe a Virginia state senator to resign, so they can block Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. This shows just how far "rich people government people" Republicans will go.
What Frightens The Right Should Empower Progressives
The "Young Gun" authors of the new conservative manifesto "Room to Grow" never mention the progressive labors and popular struggles that created the first-ever middle-class nation. But the Populist Majority must.
Meet The Genocidal Dead Colonialist The GOP Wants to Make A Citizen
Republicans can’t pass immigration reform, but they can take time out from obstructing anything that might remotely do the economy some good, to confer citizenship on a genocidal colonialist who’s been dead for over two hundred years.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama To Act On Student Loans President Obama to take executive action to reduce student loan debt. NYT: "Mr. Obama’s main action will be to expand on a 2010 law that capped borrowers’ repayments at 10 percent of their monthly income. The intent is to extend such...
The Koching of America – and of PBS: Tia Lessin of "Citizen Koch"
PBS (and its radio equivalent, NPR), while continuing to broadcast a great deal of fine programming, has increasingly come to reflect the agenda of “the one percent.” Is this why PBS spiked "Citizen Koch"?
Wingnut Week In Review: Benghazi to Berhgdahl
The safe release of an American POW is usually a cause for celebration. But there will be no yellow ribbons on the right for Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdal, who was released after being held by the Taliban for five years.
Elites Push TPP; Jobs Lost, Steel Industry Threatened By Last Trade Deal
Instead of creating jobs, a 2011 trade deal with South Korea has cost jobs and increased our trade deficit. Now there are signs that job loss could get much, much worse.
Cutting Carbon Creates Jobs!
This week, the President announced plans to cut carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. In addition to fighting global warming, this plan will protect millions of people from harmful pollution, and could create a ton of new American jobs.
Ronald Reagan, D-Day Anniversaries, and the Suppression of Memory
Whenever Reagan spoke of the Greatest Generation, he was not so much trying to remind Americans of its great achievements as to keep them from remembering too much of them. Will we now remember?
Progressive Breakfast
217K Jobs Created In May NYT on the latest jobs report: "Almost exactly five years into the recovery, total payrolls have finally surpassed where they were before the recession. While the addition of nearly nine million jobs since hiring bottomed out in February 2010...
