by Richard Eskow | May 27, 2011 | Blog
On Wednesday forty radicals in the United States Senate took an extremist position by voting to end Medicare. That simple sentence will be challenged by a lot of political and media people. They'll say I don't understand the popular mood, and that I'm applying my own...
by Mary Bottari | May 26, 2011 | Blog
Today, Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi ruled Governor Scott Walker's "budget repair bill," which would eviscerate collective bargaining rights for most public workers in the state, "null and void." Sumi ruled that lawmakers clearly violated the state's open meetings law...
by Dave Johnson | May 26, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Republicans announced something they called a "jobs plan" today. This time it's different. It really is. This time it really will create jobs instead of just handing even more money to a few at the top at the expense of the rest of us. You might not believe this...
by Terrance Heath | May 26, 2011 | Blog
I won't watch a movie if I've missed the beginning, and I hate missing endings so much that I won't start watching a movie I can't see through to the end. As a writer, the beginning and end are two of the most important parts of the story to me. They answer two...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 26, 2011 | Blog
Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, a roll call vote that some Republicans were not-so-secretly dreading began, and the public began to know the names of the senators who were willing to throw the middle class under the luxury bus for the corporate class that is the 2012...
