by Isaiah J. Poole | May 4, 2011 | Blog
Just two days after Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., claimed that the "Gang of Six" that he's a member of was making "enormous progress" toward coming up with a bipartisan deficit-reduction plan, a series of news reports indicated that the process is...
by Anne Thompson | May 4, 2011 | Blog
As conservatives in Congress exploit the impending vote to on the debt ceiling to further slash government programs that support working and middle class families, a new poll from the Ms. Foundation for Women shows that the American people want the government to play...
by Richard Eskow | May 4, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
We let him define us for a decade, and now he's gone. After a very American party, the crowds have gone home. Here's one of the more printable Twitter quotes from an online news item entitled "Pornstars Respond to Bin Laden's Death": "Bin Laden is dead. @dirtjunior666...
by Dave Johnson | May 3, 2011 | Blog
Next week, May 9 and 10, the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue will take place in Washington DC. Since 2009, high-level representatives of the US China, with their delegations, meet each year at one then the other capital. Let's see if the administration will...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 3, 2011 | Blog
Why do Swedes and citizens of other relatively equal nations take their lives at a higher rate than residents of more unequal nations? Four investigators have tapped a wealth of newly available data to help make sense out of a paradox that has dogged the research on...
