by Richard Eskow | Aug 22, 2013 | The Unfinished March
Our nation is about to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington. Over the next few days there will be new marches and new speeches, along with lots of black-and-white photographs and film clips of that historic day. We’ll remember the wisdom and courage of the civil...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 22, 2013 | Conservatism, The Sequester
In their effort to reach Latino voters with their economic message, Republicans have run into an interesting problem. In Spanish, "sequester" translates as "secuestrar," which literally means to kidnap someone, or take someone hostage. It's ironic, and appropriate....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 22, 2013 | The Unfinished March
As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington approaches, Dr. Martin Luther King’s “dream” remains unfulfilled. Great progress has been made against racial discrimination, but Dr. King’s call for economic justice remains unanswered. In the 50 years since King at...
by Dean Baker | Aug 14, 2013 | Economy, Federal Reserve Chair, Financial Reform
The supporters of Larry Summers drive to be Fed chair are desperately trying to rewrite history so that this world class champion of financial deregulation was actually a prescient supporter of tighter regulation all along. Exhibit A in this historical rewriting is a...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 7, 2013 | Federal Reserve Chair, Financial Reform
The chattering classes are fascinated by the Republicans’ internecine battle to redefine the party in the wake of the George W. Bush calamity and the Mitt Romney defeat — from Senator Rand Paul’s revolt against the neoconservative foreign policy, to intellectuals...
by Jane Yurechko | Jul 31, 2013 | Student Debt Relief
Now that a student loan interest-rate bill has passed the Senate and is almost certain to pass the House this week, it is time to take a closer look at our long-term goal for higher education: making college affordable for all students. President Obama touched upon...
