Archive
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.
Big Day Of Action To Fix Senate - Call Senators at 1-866-937-5062
The Senate is completely broken, with a minority obstructing everything. Minority. Obstructing. Every. Thing. Everything. There were more than 380 filibusters in just the last few years! In a few days the Senate will vote on fixing this and making them talk if they feel it is important to block a bill, instead of just blocking bills. If we are going to fix the Senate so the majority will can be exercised again, your senators need to hear from you immediately. Tell them to make them talk.
Obama's Second Act
F. Scott Fitzgerald warned, "There are no second acts in American lives." And for recent American presidents, second acts have been brutal. The hope of the first act succumbs to the karmic reckonings of the second. Nixon cast out by his crimes in Watergate. Reagan...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Business Roundtable Attacks The Elderly OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Rich CEOs have used every tax loophole in the book to add to their own wealth, have been bailed out directly or indirectly by the American taxpayer, and have rigged corporate...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Business Roundtable Attacks The Elderly OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Rich CEOs have used every tax loophole in the book to add to their own wealth, have been bailed out directly or indirectly by the American taxpayer, and have rigged corporate...
