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Corporate Media STILL Won't Cover Progressive Budget, Or The Fall In The Deficit
The House Progressive Caucus' "Back To Work Budget" was announced almost a week ago, and the "mainstream media" still refuse to cover it. The Back to Work Budget is literally forced out of the discussion by being kept out of the news. The public doesn't have the...
Inside CPAC: Adele Stan on the Takeaway For Progressives
Adele Stan, the Washington editor of AlterNet, says that as crazy and extreme as some of what is said and done at the Conservative Political Action Conference seems to be, progressives should still be concerned about the ability of conservatives to win the political...
Paul Ryan Disses "The Help" Again
Just four months ago, Americans told the Romney-Ryan team: “No.” The electorate rejected them. Many voters objected to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan treating them the way arrogant 1 percenters treat “The Help.”
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Who Stands With The Middle Class? OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "...the members of the House of Representatives will choose. At a time of mass unemployment and slow growth, they will vote for more austerity or for more jobs ... These choices will...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Who Stands With The Middle Class? OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "...the members of the House of Representatives will choose. At a time of mass unemployment and slow growth, they will vote for more austerity or for more jobs ... These choices will...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Who Stands With The Middle Class? OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "...the members of the House of Representatives will choose. At a time of mass unemployment and slow growth, they will vote for more austerity or for more jobs ... These choices will...
The Budget Vote: Who Stands With the Middle Class?
As early as today, the members of the House of Representatives will choose. At a time of mass unemployment and slow growth, they will vote for more austerity or for more jobs. At a time of Gilded Age inequality, they will decide whether the rich bear too large a...
Why Aren't More of Us Protesting Inequality?
Egalitarian-minded academics have just subjected a central political question of our time to some rigorous research scrutiny. What they've found: More knowledge about our economic divide can change how people feel about inequality, but not necessarily what they do.
Wall Street's Cartoon Racism [HuffPost Live w/Alyona M - video clip]
HuffPost Live had a discussion segment based on a piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the racist BusinessWeek cover that depicted greedy minority borrowers raking in fistfuls of cash from "liar loans." The session included a mistreated homeowner named Rose...
Top 10 Unintended Hilarious Lines in the RNC's 2012 "Autopsy" Report
Today the Republican National Committee released its "autopsy" of its 2012 electoral defeat, officially titled the "Growth and Opportunity Project." On one hand, it's a serious attempt to assess how the Republican Party has become uncompetitive nationally, and...
