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As Europe Sickens, Its Austerity Poison Is Our Prescription
How much sicker does the patient have to get before the doctors stop prescribing poison? Here are some selected news stories out of Europe: New York Times: "Unemployment in Euro Zone Reaches a Record High" WSJ: "Sixth Quarter of Contraction Looms for Euro Zone" Der...
Will Charter Schools Survive The Charter School Movement?
America's education polices are brimming with contradiction. Schools, we're told, need more standardization, but parents need more choices, which standardization precludes. Teachers need to be held to more accountability, but entry into the teaching force needs to be...
How Was Krugman So Wrong On Trade?
Have our trade policies helped or hurt the country? You can look down at equations and models, or you can look up and see what is happening around you. Equations and models will tell you that "free trade" is a good thing. But if you look up and see what is happening...
Republican Governors Rising? Bobby Jindal Just Crash Landed.
The Republican Party's official "autopsy" begins, "The GOP today is a tale of two parties. One of them, the gubernatorial wing, is growing and successful. The other, the federal wing, is increasingly marginalizing itself..." But the party may need to a fresh autopsy...
More Than 300,000 Demand Obama Repudiate Holder’s “Too Big to Jail” Remarks
Today activists in more than a dozen cities across the country are delivering more than 330,000 signatures to U.S. Department of Justice offices calling on the Obama Administration to reject Eric Holder's declaration that some financial institutions are too big to...
GOP Suffers Big Yellow Taxi Syndrome
Republicans are suffering grievously from the syndrome that singer Joni Mitchell memorialized in the hit “Big Yellow Taxi” in 1970. The chorus says it all: Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Will We Stop Social Security Cuts? OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Two recent news reports indicate that the President is 'strongly considering' cuts to Medicare and Social Security in his upcoming budget, which is to be released in less than ten days...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Will We Stop Social Security Cuts? OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Two recent news reports indicate that the President is 'strongly considering' cuts to Medicare and Social Security in his upcoming budget, which is to be released in less than ten days...
Why Wouldn't the President Cut Social Security and Medicare? That's Up to You.
Two recent news reports indicate that the president is “strongly considering” cuts to Medicare and Social Security in his upcoming budget, which is to be released in less than ten days. The question’s been asked for four years: Why would Obama want to cut these...
Obama Shouldn't Buy The Lower-Corporate-Taxes Line
There is a big push going on to again reduce tax rates for the giant multinational corporations. See if you can guess who will make up the difference? (Hint: it will be you paying through cuts, and smaller companies that are trying to challenge the incumbency of the...
