by Sara Robinson | May 28, 2009 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
One of the things I'm really liking about the new regime is the way the stark, terrified silence of the Bush years is giving way to noisy, energetic public discussion of subjects that would have been considered hardcore political pornography just a year or two ago....
by Robert Borosage | May 27, 2009 | Blog
Congressional Republicans are marginally more popular and significantly less contagious than the swine flu. Even conservatives are keeping their distance. House leader John Boehner's perpetual tan has become a presidential punch line. Senate leader Mitch Dr. No...
by Eric Lotke | May 27, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The wind is at our backs. The media still calls America a “center-right” nation, but “center-left” is closer to the truth. On issues ranging from health care to energy, the public is more progressive than people think. Demographic groups from youth to Hispanics are...
by Steven Capozzola | May 26, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
Clyde Prestowitz is absolutely right that the United States needs a cohesive, forward-looking national industrial policy. And furthermore, he is correct in pointing out the “policies of China, Japan, Korea and others to undervalue their currencies.” Such...
by Leo Gerard | May 26, 2009 | Blog
Randel K. Johnson, vice president of that esteemed group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, recently revealed a corporate-squelched truth in a slip of the tongue. During a debate on May 15 with Stewart Acuff of the AFL-CIO about the Employee Free Choice Act, Johnson...
by Zach Carter | May 26, 2009 | Blog
With workers all over the globe trudging through a catastrophic recession, it's almost a given that governments will be battling the economic slide for a long time. Part of the effort to rebuild must involve new rules and regulations, but meaningful systems for...
