by Robert Borosage | May 5, 2011 | Blog
Click here to sign the petition: "Draw Down Afghanistan. Build Up America." And click here to hear Robert Borosage tell NPR, "This policy has no clothes and it's going to change." We went into Afghanistan to track down those who launched the 9/11 attacks on America....
by Richard Eskow | May 5, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Big banks and credit card companies have made a PR misstep in the fight over debit card charges. They're trying to use the Bush Administration's anti-terror team to convince Americans that exorbitant debit card fees are needed for our nation's security. The timing...
by | May 4, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Within a week, as the news and analysis of Osama bin Laden's demise fades, the American people will focus once again on the issues that matter most to their daily lives. For most Americans, that includes the jobs market and the state of our economy. But no one is...
by Terrance Heath | May 4, 2011 | Blog
In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death, and the celebrations inspired by news of his demise, there's been some discussion of whether Americans should be celebrating and just what Americans are celebrating. Are we celebrating the death of another human being (even...
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...