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GOP Divorced from Reality on Obamacare
Republicans are right that Americans don’t like Obamacare – the name Obamacare, that is. When they judge it for the content of its insurance, they love it.
Who Betrayed The Legacy Of Brown v. Board?
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, today’s political leaders engage in grand gestures of "progress" while taking deliberate actions to increase racial inequity.
Progressive Breakfast
GOP Seeks To Widen Inequality Sen. Marco Rubio today to propose weakening Social Security. AP: "[Rubio] would raise the retirement age for younger workers while protecting those age 55 and over. Older workers could still expect to retire at age 62 or older, depending...
New Populist Movement Driving Local Minimum Wage Reforms
There is a new populist movement that is driving minimum wage and other reforms across the country. It forms part of a template for how we build independent movements to improve the economy for regular people.
9 Stories of Injustice from Matt Taibbi's New Book, 'The Divide'
In his new book, Matt Taibbi shows that the way justice works in the United States is divided pretty starkly between the wealthy and successful (and mostly white) and the rest of the country.
Does Cliven Bundy Represent The Ugly American?
While Bundy’s call to his followers to illegally ride on government land and put thousands of years’ worth of history and culture at risk is deplorable, it’s a symptom of a much larger problem in America.
How Clinton’s Welfare “Reform” Created a System Rife With Racial Biases
It’s a political cliché that “red” and “blue” states represent two Americas. But consider how states prioritize programs like health care and education — or how they administer their social safety nets — and the differences are very real.
Progressive Breakfast
Banks Try To Escape Prosecution Banks beg not to be prosecuted. NYT: "To avoid the fallout from pleading guilty — no giant bank has done so in more than two decades — BNP Paribas and Credit Suissemade last-ditch appeals to prosecutors and regulators in recent weeks,...
Democrats Should Be For Jobs, Against Corporate Tax Giveaways
The country needs jobs. The country needs to fix its crumbling infrastructure. The country doesn't need more corporate tax breaks. Guess which of these three the House is passing – unfortunately with help from many Democrats.
Wingnut Week In Review: Devil In A Blue Dress?
Hillary Clinton's all-but-inevitable presidential candidacy in 2016 and Monica Lewinsky's return to the spotlight have led to recurrence of the right's derangement disorder of the '90s.
