by Richard Eskow | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CERwr0MHYjQ[/fve] It’s heartbreaking to read of the suffering caused by environmental damage in West Virginia and North Carolina. We recently interviewed West Virginia filmmaker Mari-Lynn Evans on the “Zero Hour”...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 10, 2014 | Conservatism, Health
As Media Matters and other outlets noted last week, right-wing commentators drastically misrepresented a Congressional Budget Office report’s findings about the Affordable Care Act. Fox News, Washington Post conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, and many other...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 7, 2014 | Conservatism, Reagan Revolution
January 20 marked the 25th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as President. And February 6 marked the 103rd birthday of the former sports announcer, actor, governor of California and 40th President of the United States of America. Reagan’s economic...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 4, 2014 | Financial Reform
It seems like an idea whose time has come. With one in four American households partially or entirely excluded from the current banking system, and with the U.S. Post Office in search of additional revenue, why not use the postal system to offer banking services to...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 3, 2014 | Populist Majority
Of all the myths that circulate in Washington, perhaps none is more prevalent or intractable than the one that says that the United States is a “moderate” nation – and that the “center” of public opinion lies somewhere between the views of conservative Democrats and...
