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Boston: The 27th Mile
It's hard to think about tax policy or cost-of-living calculations for Social Security when death is in the news, when the grim horror of it hangs in the air like the last wisps of afternoon smoke. The bombs exploded just before the finish line, at mile 26.2 of the...
Boston: The 27th Mile
It's hard to think about tax policy or cost-of-living calculations for Social Security when death is in the news, when the grim horror of it hangs in the air like the last wisps of afternoon smoke. The bombs exploded just before the finish line, at mile 26.2 of the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Why Education Advocates Join the Progressive Opposition to Obama’s Budget OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "The narrative that there’s a sort of generational warfare breaking out in the Democratic Party is remarkably false, though. Because Social Security...
Why Education Advocates Join the Progressive Opposition to Obama's Budget
Now that every major media outlet has weighed in on the budget that President Obama introduced last week, the conventional wisdom is that Obama has proposed a "balance" of new revenues and spending cuts with an emphasis on sacrificing "entitlements" enjoyed by old...
Why Education Advocates Join the Progressive Opposition to Obama's Budget
Now that every major media outlet has weighed in on the budget that President Obama introduced last week, the conventional wisdom is that Obama has proposed a "balance" of new revenues and spending cuts with an emphasis on sacrificing "entitlements" enjoyed by old...
Not the Picture Picasso Would Have Painted
A colossal gift from a fabulously rich patron of the arts has the museum world buzzing. But hold the hosannahs. The rich aren't saving our culture.
Not the Picture Picasso Would Have Painted
A colossal gift from a fabulously rich patron of the arts has the museum world buzzing. But hold the hosannahs. The rich aren't saving our culture.
Why Cutting Social Security Benefits Is Such a Big Deal
Last week President Obama announced a budget that includes something called "chained CPI" as a way to reduce Social Security benefits. I will not support it.
Class War: Politico Acknowledges Key To Democratic Party Success
In our post-mortem of the 2012 elections, the Campaign for America's Future was one of the few organizations willing to say that "class war" was not only the common theme of many of the Democratic Party's electoral successes but it is a strategy that the party should...
Will Social Security Cuts Be The Democratic Party's "New Coke?"
All the smartest people in the executive suites just knew that the taste of Coca-Cola needed "reform." Rival Pepsi was advertising to the "New Generation" and Coke's executives came to believe their product wasn't what the "cool" people wanted to drink. Everyone they...
