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Will Senate Democrats Reenable Democracy?
Senate Democrats on Tuesday will choose whether to finally put an end to Republican filibuster obstruction of everything. In particular Republicans are obstructing appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
McConnell Explains Why McConnell Is Wrong
Yesterday on NBC's Meet The Press, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was having a hard time understanding why the Majority Leader is ready to change the rules to prevent filibusters on executive branch nominees: We don't all agree on everything, and they elect...
Trayvon Martin and Black Man 101: The New Curriculum
After the 2009 arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., I and many other African-American writers shared our experiences of "Black Man 101"; a lifelong course in survival and behavior modification in which we are enrolled almost from birth, and from which we never graduate....
Will Zimmerman Be A Right Wing Hero?
Charles Pierce thinks so. I think it could happen, after watching his brother with Pierce Morgan last night. Imagine how thrilled CPAC will be to see George The Victim next year.
Progressive Breakfast for July 15 2013
Senate Student Loan Negotiations Stuck Student loan deal "elusive" says National Journal: "By late last week, lawmakers had broken the gridlock, agreeing to work toward a deal that would be deficit-neutral, tie interest rates to the market, and place rate caps on...
I’m Sorry, Trayvon, But We’ll Walk On
“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” That’s what Dr. King said, not long before he was killed by a bullet from a white man’s gun. A half-century after those words were spoken, the killer of Trayvon Martin walks free.
It’s College Students vs. the Corporate Machine - and the Machine's Winning
Once this nation saw higher education as a citadel of learning, growth, and opportunity. Now student debt is being used as a cash cow to subsidize corporate tax breaks, while universities become incubators for corporate employees and cheap laboratories for...
Republicans Toss Student Loan Deal, Conclude Students Aren't Worth It
Republicans in the Senate rejected their own student loan deal today after the Congressional Budget Office released its potential cost. The CBO announced today that the bipartisan student loan deal created and pushed for by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), Lamar...
Behind The House Conservatives' Assault On Nutrition Assistance
The one thing that’s worse than the House Republican vote Thursday to pass a farm bill that did not include the nutrition assistance program commonly known as food stamps is what was likely to happen if the nutrition assistance program remained part of the bill. After...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Says Banking Should Be Boring!
Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to make banking boring again. Yesterday, the freshman senator introduced the 21st Century Glass Steagall Act, which would break up the big banks, and rebuild the wall between traditional banking and Wall Street gambling. In a statement, Senator Warren said, “Despite the progress we've made since 2008, the biggest banks continue to threaten the economy.”
