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Pwnd By Faceless Bureaucrats
I've never understood why so many people think the Social Security actuaries have always been innumerate morons, but perhaps that's just a result of the decades of propaganda about government workers. The fact is that from the very beginning the SSA accurately...
Citizens United Still Matters: Our Courts Are On The Auction Block
Election night 2012 definitely felt like a victory for progressives. President Obama won re-election convincingly, with more than half the electorate casting ballots for the president, Democrats picked up two Senate seats and eight House seats. The fears of...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Too Much Health Care Is Not The Problem OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Nate Silver has a much-discussed post today in The New York Times, 'What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending?' ... he is right: health care costs have been rising at an...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Too Much Health Care Is Not The Problem OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Nate Silver has a much-discussed post today in The New York Times, 'What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending?' ... he is right: health care costs have been rising at an...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Too Much Health Care Is Not The Problem OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Nate Silver has a much-discussed post today in The New York Times, 'What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending?' ... he is right: health care costs have been rising at an...
Fix Budget Problems With Medicare-For-All
Nate Silver has a much-discussed post today in The New York Times, "What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending?" Silver goes over the numbers and writes: To clarify: all of the major categories of government spending have been increasing relative to inflation. But...
Winning By Losing: Yes It's Progress
Glenn Thrush has an interesting analysis of President Obama's strategy on gun control and it's one with which I agree. This truly does seem to be a different approach than anything we saw from him in the first term: Over the years, Democrats have jokingly referred to...
What's The Cure For Shorter Lives And Poorer Health In America? Can You Say "Public Option"?
Harold Myerson, over at the Washington Post, points out a new report by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine contains some bad news about about the America's health. The title pretty much says it all: "U.S. Health in International...
Why Progressives Should Care About The Backlash On Standardized Testing
Last week, celebrated statistics guru Nate Silver laid a bugger on advocates for test-driven education, the current policy fad that enamors Republicans and Democrats alike who fancy themselves as "education reformers." In an online conversation at the aggregator site...
Racism on Display: Washington, D.C.'s Status in Congress
As our nation promotes representative democracy around the world, it is time to finally bring it to those who don't have it here in the United States -- the citizens of Washington, D.C.
