by Robert Borosage | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
The President went to Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Virginia to deliver a speech on education, calling on Congress to fix and reauthorize No Child Left Behind by the fall. The speech was a carefully modulated discussion of education reform that echoed themes...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog
If you take a job away from someone who is paid a reasonable wage because they enjoy the protections and prosperity of democratic government, move it across a border, and give it to someone living under a thugocracy, forced to work for pennies with no protections...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
After a big buildup, the hacker group Anonymous released its first batch of whistleblower emails regarding Bank of America. The result was ... confusion. Maybe they're real, maybe not. (We assume they are.) Maybe they're a letdown. Maybe not. Here's what we know and...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
People in Wisconsin are pulling their money out of Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Bank because they know it's been helping their Governor's crusade against public employees and the middle class. They might also like to know that M&I's executives ran one of the most...
by Bill Scher | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog
Last Thursday, I learned that Sen. Rand Paul hasn't had a functioning toilet in his home for 20 years. He seems to believe the federal government is not allowing him to own a functioning toilet. I found this strange, because I own a functioning toilet. And like the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog
If you think conservatism's war on America's working- and middle-classes is only happening in Wisconsin and a few other states, you're wrong. If you think that it's only a war against public employees, you're more wrong than you know. Dan Rather recently filed a story...
