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This Year's Budget Fight Isn't About The Budget
There are many reasons why the next budget fight will be more difficult than any of the close-to-debacles that have occurred in recent years. This year the biggest complication is that the budget fight isn't about the budget. It's about Obamacare.
Summers' Withdrawal from Fed Candidacy a Progressive Victory
When Washington went to the beach, progressives opposed to the Summers nomination organized. What is clear now is that the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is willing and able to challenge its Wall Street wing.
Progressive Breakfast
Summers Is Over Summers withdraws. Momentum for Yellen. AP: "David Jones, chief economist at DMJ Advisors and the author of several books on the Fed, said he saw Yellen's selection as a virtual certainty ... Yellen has long been considered a top candidate for the...
Common Sense for the Manufactured Budget Crisis
Republicans are gearing up once more to hold the nation hostage over the budget. As the melodrama and posturing rev up, here is a common-sense field guide for the self-inflicted crisis.
Tea Party vs The Kochs?
Of course the Tea Partiers are a blight on American politics. But the Big Money influence of people like the Kochs and the Adelsons is truly antithetical to American democracy and it's at the root of our biggest problems.
Progressive Breakfast
Dems Ponder Response To GOP Budget "Crack Up" "The House GOP Is About to Crack Up" says TNR's Jonathan Cohn: "Conservatives seem determined to provoke a crisis, whether it's over funding the government past September 30 or increasing the Treasury's borrowing limit. If...
Will The GOP Fade To White?
Can the GOP craft an economic message that keeps white working class voters in the fold, and attracts voters of color? It can be done. But can Republicans do it? The future of Republican party may depend upon it.
A Must-See Movie, "Inequality for All" with Robert Reich, Opens Sept. 27
"Inequality for All" dramatizes the growing income gap in the United States and the implications for the health of the American economy. You should see this film – and you should get others to see it.
The Old Extreme GOP vs. the New Extreme GOP: Whoever Wins, We Lose.
The new GOP right is a tangled nest of snakes, but remember: The fact that their enemies are extreme doesn’t mean that John Boehner and Eric Cantor aren’t. Whichever side wins, we lose.
Conservative States Starve Public Schools, Feed Rich With Tax Cuts
A study reveals that most of the states that have made the deepest cuts in public education are those with Republican-dominated legislatures, many of which at the same time awarded tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations.
