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Best Walmart Video
The Walmart heirs have $144 billion - more than 40% of Americans combined. This is in part because Walmart pays so little that employees qualify for government assistance. This huge forture influences politicians to keep the system rigged.
Progressive Breakfast
Proof Obamacare Can Work California proves Obamacare can work, says NYT's Paul Krugman: "...California isn’t the only place where Obamacare is looking pretty good ... [But is] is, however, an especially useful test case. First of all, it’s huge: if a system can work...
Republicans to America: Sequester You
Bizarrely, Republicans are beginning to brag about sequestering America. Sequestration budgets cuts were designed to be repugnant. They fulfill that expectation. But Republican leaders argue that they "are working, and vow to sequester America.
One 'Entitlement' Really Does Need Trimming
America's corporate CEOs feel entitled to pensions that pay out $86,000 monthly. To protect their entitlement, they're attacking ours: Social Security. But a new report neatly exposes the monumental hypocrisy of their legislative assault.
Taking From The Poor And Giving To The Pentagon. This Is The GOP.
The GOP is targeting Medicaid in its next attack on health care reform. House Republicans want to take $21 billion budgeted for the Medicaid expansion and use it to cover defense cuts. This is who they are.
GOP Threatens Revenge For Nuclear Option. Easier Said Than Done.
The air is filled with Republicans claiming Democrats will rue the day they ended the filibuster for lower-level federal judicial appointments. They'll appoint a slew of Scalia clones, repeal Obamacare, junk the EPA.
Is Economist Tyler Cowen The Next Tom Friedman?
I just had a new piece published in Salon.com about Tyler Cowen, the libertarian economist who's been described as "the next Tom Friedman." Cowen shares Friedman's infatuation with technology - and his belief that the middle class is disposable.
Put 'Full Employment' Back On The National Agenda
The phrase "full employment" is treated as something that would be uttered only by wild-eyed radicals. It's time to mainstream the term. That's why a new book by economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein is so important.
Progressive Breakfast
Filibuster Reform Reinvigorates Second Term W. Post on how it helps Obama: "The most immediate effect will be felt at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ... The court is likely to help decide whether Obama can enact new Environmental...
The "Real JFK" – Not Conservative, and Not Forgotten
Presidents are the products of the times at least as much they are the shapers of them. JFK was not a conservative. That idea calls upon us to, in Rilke’s words, “gently remove the semblance of injustice that ... hinders spirits from moving on."
