by Alan Jenkins | Jul 28, 2009 | Blog
Only two people know what actually went down between Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sergeant James Crowley last week, and even they disagree—apparently in good faith—about what transpired. So as the two prepare to have a beer with President Obama later this week,...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 28, 2009 | Blog
I am pro-corporate. I’ll go a step further with that and proclaim that I believe that there are no bad corporations, and that I haven’t seen any corporations do anything wrong. I see the way you are looking at me. I’d better explain. The reason I say there are no...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 27, 2009 | Blog
The phrase “industrial policy” sounds so Walter Mondale, 1970s, smokestacks and brick factory old-fashioned. I suspect the subject turns people off, eyes glaze over, hands reach under the table for iPhones and Blackberries… But this is SO important. China has an...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 26, 2009 | Blog
Opponents of the proposal for a 5.4 percent health care reform surtax on America’s wealthy seem to be getting a bit desperate. They've even turned their fire onto middle-income Americans. Friends and fans of privilege have been striking their indignant pose the...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 24, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar’s lot really, but still corporations across America decried it. Good times or bad, somehow Wall Streeters walk away with $700,000 bonuses, you know, on top of their salaries, but a 70-cent minimum...
by Sara Robinson | Jul 24, 2009 | Blog
One of the big differences between the 1993 Hillarycare debate and our current conversation is that we're hearing a lot more fact and lot less fiction about how other countries' systems actually work. Thank the Internet. Back in 1993, the "Harry and Louise" ads...
