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Student Loans: Gouge The Kids
Interest rates on student loans will double to 6.8 percent on July 1 unless Congress acts. But it seems increasingly likely that the Congress will take off for the Fourth of July recess without addressing the problem. The major sticking point: Republicans in the House...
Democracy Is Rising In The States
Madison. Occupy... Now in North Carolina it's Moral Mondays. In Texas it's a filibuster, hundreds of thousands watching online, and the spectator gallery goes nuts when Republicans try to shut down the speaker. In Pennsylvania low-wage workers are sleeping in teh...
With DOMA's Demise, We Are Citizens
We are citizens. That's what I said to my husband, when I called him moments after getting the news that the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
As Deadline Looms, Fight Against Student Loan Rate Hike Intensifies
As the deadline of July 1 approaches for preventing student Stafford Loan rates from doubling to 6.8 percent, it seems less and less likely Congress will be able to push any legislation through to help our students. Student groups are concerned, certain members of...
Stand Up For Seniors and Against Right-Wing Obstruction to Win in 2014
The Democracy Corps recent Congressional Battleground survey provides surprising insights into the upcoming midterm election. In the most contested battleground districts, Democrats can defy the conventional wisdom that they are doomed to lose seats in an off-year...
The IRS "Scandal" Was A Set-Up
I have been writing about the so-called IRS "scandal." It turns out the whole thing was a set-up from the start. Republicans told the Inspector General to make it look like only conservative groups received scrutiny from the IRS, but all groups received the normal...
"Democracy Has Been Stolen And We Have To Take It Back"
In a democracy a legislature is supposed to figure out problems, discuss, try a response. But right now what happens is … we need a supermajority just to get a vote. In Harry Reid's first 6 years he had to file 391 petitions.
'Education Spring' Rebellions Get Noticed At The Top
The end of another school year is leaving a bad taste in many people's mouths. A steady diet of government austerity and top-down "accountability" mandates have left numerous communities across the country with a severe case of sour stomachs over how their schools are...
Inequality - Let's Fix It
Inequality is the most pressing economic issue in the US today. The Economic Policy Institute has created the website Inequality.is to bring the issue home to people. The site explains how inequality is real, personal, expensive, created and fixable. Inequality.is...
No, Justice Thomas, Affirmative Action Is Not Like Slavery
As I wrote last week, I'm pretty much used to white conservatives peculiar relationship to America's peculiar institution. Whether they're defending it, or using it to define everything and anything they dislike, white conservatives just can't stop talking about...
