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MORNING MESSAGE: 10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "The middle class is the great engine of the American economy, but today that engine is sputtering. Our economic crisis is one half of a vicious cycle in which it and the unemployment...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE: Deficit Rorschach Test: The Presidents, the Editors, and the Truth OurFuture.Org's Richard Eskow: "Both political parties have 'an aversion to telling the truth,' says the Washington Post. The truth? That newspaper's editors are part of a small but...

The Party Platforms: What In God's Name?

It's always amusing when God (if — and I know I risk losing a huge chunk of readers by writing this — there is one) gets dragged into politics. After all, with an entire universe to run (unless you're a Deist of the Thomas Jefferson variety), you have to admit it's...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE: Obama, Yes. And Win the House Too. OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: "President Obama is enjoying a post-convention bump in job approval (Gallup says 7 percentage points - from 45 to 52 percent) after the negative and divisive Republican convention,...

The Culture of Interdependence

First, let me be clear: I take no credit for the messaging or themes of first two nights of the Democratic convention. But in some of the most talked about speeches of the last two nights, I heard echoes of ideas I've been writing about for years. No, it doesn't...

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