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We Need a New Deal for Millennials
What kind of society abandons its own young? What kind of society allows the generations in power to favor themselves over those who follow them, and then lets them claim they're doing it out of selflessness? Look around you.
Austerity Battle Heating Up In Greece
Protests in Athens and all across Greece have not abated since the ERT shutdown last week. If anything, they've intensified, into a genuine political crisis, raising talk of early elections as the ruling coalition struggles to avoid collapse
Sinking American Electorate: Millenials Losing Faith in Obama
Democrats may be in trouble during the 2014 midterm elections. Amid political controversies, an anemic economy and high unemployment, President Obama’s approval rating dropped eight percentage points in a single month.
Rick Perry Offers Country A Race-To-Bottom Death Spiral
Texas Governor Rick Perry is on a "job-poaching" trip to New York. He wants to move in one part of our country to Texas where they will be transformed into low paying jobs. This adds up to a net loss for our country, economy and society.
National Confidence Ratings For Congress Don't Matter When It Comes To The Budget
You would think that this poll showing "Americans' confidence in Congress is not only at its lowest point on record, but also is the worst Gallup has ever found for any institution it has measured since 1973" would be so embarrassing to those on Capital Hill that they would take immediate steps to change the situation.
You would be especially justified in thinking that it would change congressional behavior on the federal budget. Although the poll doesn't say it, there's no doubt in my mind that the constant and highly publicized "I'm-gonna-hold-my-breath-till-I'm-blue-in-the-face" fights over the deficit, debt ceiling, and annual budget resolution haves been the biggest factors in this totally failing grade for the House and Senate.
But it won't. Particularly when it comes to the budget it's not likely to change congressional behavior at all.
There are two reasons.
Where Uncle Sam Ought to Be Snooping
Let's place private corporations with government contracts under surveillance — to make sure no one is getting rich off our tax dollars.
The White House Should Pay Its Interns. Here's Why
To Whom It May Concern at the White House: I have three little words for you: Pay Your Interns. It is unconscionable for the White House — as for so many other “public” sector organizations — to engage in a practice that structurally reinforces privilege, closing off...
9 Ways the Right's Cradle to Grave "Randian State" Is An Assault on Millennials
Conservatives keep claiming liberals want a "cradle-to-grave nanny state." That rhetoric has distracted us from the real social re-engineering taking place all around us. The right, along with its "centrist" collaborators, is transforming our nation into a bloodless...
Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America
Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America (via Moyers & Company) For fifteen years in Neodesha, Kansas (population 2,486) there were only two options for early childhood education services in town: a program for at-risk 4-year-olds operated by the school district, and...
On TV's "To The Contrary": Talking Immigration, Breadwinning Women, Surrogacy and the Single Dad
Today I had the honor of being one of few men to join the panel on WETA's "To The Contrary," with Bonnie Erbe, for a Father's Day edition of the normally all-female news analysis program. (The show will air later this evening, and the video will be available online...
