by Richard Eskow | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
Mr. President, you moved a nation today with your words in Tucson. "Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame," you said, "let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
There isn't much cause for gloating in today's unemployment report, with the number of jobs created during December—103,000—being lower than most analysts expected. But, more critically, we're not even treading water on creating a sufficient number of "breadwinning...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
Polls consistently find that the vast majority of Americans oppose cutting Social Security, whether they're progressives or Tea Partiers or anything in between. And most real experts agree it's not necessary. We're supposed to have a government "of the people, by the...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
As Paul Krugman aptly summarizes, “recovery” is today's fool’s gold. Good news about the economy—higher holiday sales, lower unemployment filings—feeds a truly dangerous Beltway conventional wisdom: “We’re in recovery; now it is time to tighten our belts, cut...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
The Senate is considering reforming the rules for filibusters. In the last few years the filibuster has been used so frequently that it is now conventional wisdom that "it takes 60 votes to pass a bill in the Senate." This is because the public, and apparently even...
