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What Are They Afraid Of? The Populist Majority Remembering!
What are they afraid of? Why does the memory of FDR, the Greatest Generation, and the Four Freedoms rattle the right? Watch the video that Varney and Company of FOX Business News would not post.
Income Growth is Not Quite What Robert Samuelson Implies
Robert Samuelson is correct that income inequality in the US today is nothing like it was in the 1920s, because of the social welfare state. However his column is somewhat misleading on the income gains for middle- and low-income families.
The Real Piketty Scandal (Is Right-Wing Deception)
The Right wasted no time seizing the opportunity the Financial Times gave them to discredit Thomas Piketty's book on wealth inequality, but felt no responsibility to amend their words when new information came to light.
5 Companies Ripping Off America and the Simple Tax Change To Fix It
An unfair tax dodge lets corporations hoard their money abroad. This puts honest companies that make things here and pay their taxes at a competitive disadvantage.
High Stakes As The Senate Turns To The Student Debt Crisis
A major impediment holding back millennials from entering the middle class, and Democrats from turning them out to vote, is student loan debt. This is not just an issue affecting young adults, either.
Progressive Breakfast
Climate Day EPA to announce historic carbon cap regs this morning. NYT: "Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will outline the regulations, issued under the Clean Air Act, at the agency’s Washington headquarters at 10:30 a.m. The...
Wingnut Week In Review: Wingnuts Profiling the Latest Shooter
Well, that didn’t take long. As Americans were still reeling from the latest gun massacre, right-wingers wasted no time blaming liberals, Hollywood, and gay marriage for all shooting rampages. As usually, the facts are decidedly against wingnuts.
VA Scapegoat Sacrificed, So Now Can We Fix The VA?
The Republican strategy: Step 1: Block the bill (and any/every bill that makes things better). Step 2: Blame Democrats for the damage done by their blocking the bill.
Denial Is Not A Policy.
Republicans in the House of Representatives are not only denying climate science – they're actually blocking the Pentagon from taking any action on it. Once again, House Republicans have gone too far.
Progressive Breakfast
House GOP Rigging More Rules For Big Business House Ways and Means Committee clears another business tax break without offset. The Hill: "The House Ways and Means Committee cleared a permanent extension of the tax break, known as bonus depreciation, along with five...
