by Robert Borosage | Sep 30, 2009 | Blog
"Vandalism" screams the cover of The Economist, depicting President Obama leaving an ice pick in the tire of free trade. (No racial overtones there; after all, as the president explained, he was black before he was elected.) When the president imposed...
by Bill Scher | Sep 29, 2009 | Blog
The Senate Finance Committee, as expected, minutes ago voted to reject two separate version of a public health insurance option. The three Democrats voting to reject both, including the weaker version that did not drive down costs by pegging reimbursements to Medicare...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 29, 2009 | Blog
Tonight, I'm going to the Washington, DC premiere of Micheal Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. I know there are people who can't stand Moore, but I've seen just about all of his movies.
by Brian Dockstader | Sep 29, 2009 | Blog
For six years the Campaign for America's Future organized the annual Take Back America conference, the largest annual gathering of progressives in the country. At the conference progressives came together to discuss how to improve the country, through goals like...
by Bill Scher | Sep 28, 2009 | Blog
D-Day is tired of the kabuki dance of leaking the end of the public option then denying it publicly, the latest incarnation coming from the Senate Majority Leader's office: Harry Reid pulled the yo-yo trick today. First some anonymous staffers were quoted in the NYT...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 28, 2009 | Blog
A conservative world leader and two world-famous economists who challenge conservative world leaders have joined up to call for a totally new global economic yardstick. And they want that yardstick to measure inequality. Sometime early this fall, new statistics are...
