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The GOP Death Panel
The death panels are real and they’ve been found! But it’s not President Obama or some evil communist plot that’s putting politics over lives - it’s Republicans. Republicans have created their own death panels.
We Are In a Crisis — a Moral Crisis
Like justice, caring for the vulnerable, embracing the stranger, healing the sick, protecting workers, fairness to all members of the human family, and educating children should never be relegated to the margins of our social consciousness.
Norquist v. Ingraham and the Momentum for Immigration Reform
Grover Norquist visited Laura Ingraham's radio show, then chastised her and her allies because "they throw around ‘amnesty’ in criticizing every single reform that we’re looking at." The left is united and the right is divided.
Progressive Breakfast
Bernie '16? Salon's Jim Newell makes the case: "At the least, he could play a vital role in setting Clinton’s policy agenda before she moves on to the general election ... The biggest question facing Hillary Clinton heading into 2016, aside from whether she actually...
Full Employment: The First Principle Of New Populism
There is simply no reason whatsoever that we can't have full employment – except for policies that are intentionally keeping us from having full employment. Our New Populism conference will make that a central theme.
Why Democrats Need Bernie Sanders to Run for President
Sen. Bernie Sanders may actually run for president. Assuming he rejects the Naderish option of running as an independent, a Sanders run could be excellent news for Democrats — in the next presidential race and beyond.
How Campus Chiefs Ace Executive Excess 101
Amid all the financial squeezing at state universities, a new study shows that the more students lose out and faculty feel chronically frustrated, the grander the rewards university presidents reap.
An Alliance Forged in Patriotism
Steelworkers and steel company CEOs, red and blue politicians, often at each other’s throats, have allied to confront a surge in dumped foreign steel, an illegal practice that jeopardizes the viability of American mills.
Progressive Breakfast
Recovery Fails To Reach Dem Base "Economic Recovery Yields Few Benefits for the Voters Democrats Rely On" reports NYT: "...while the number of women out of work appears to be much improved, the number of women employed compared with the total female population is 55.2...
Did Washington Rescue the Wrong Economy?
Two economists make a convincing case that the 2009 recession wouldn't have been any more harmful than previous ones if financial decision-makers had rescued homeowners, rather than only concentrating on bankers.
