by Dave Johnson | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Does free trade create jobs? This is the wrong question. Of course new trade agreements create jobs. The right question is do they create more jobs than they kill, and are those new jobs good-paying jobs? Will the agreements be used to break unions and pressure US...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Washington is engaged in one more Chicken Little game of chicken. "The sky is falling" they cry, whipping up the fear and panic, demanding we solve the latest "crisis" by cutting taxes for the rich, cutting the things We, the People do for each other, and handing over...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Today's preferred political posture is that of "the adult in the room," the one who's prepared to compromise during negotiations. But there's a little problem with that pose. By definition, it means that you're compromising with children. The adult in the room at a...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 25, 2011 | Blog
People in the capital were thrilled by Twitter's role in 2009's Iranian uprisings. They probably weren't as excited this weekend when a new "hashtag" (topic) suddenly climbed toward the top of Twitter's trend list. It's not printable here, but the first word began...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 25, 2011 | Blog
Step back from the day-to-day, hour-to-hour details of the debt-ceiling negotiations for a minute and look at the bigger picture. Look what we're in the middle of. Our legislators are being stampeded by a manufactured "crisis" into profoundly changing the nature of...
