by Terrance Heath | Apr 15, 2009 | Blog
Hillary Clinton surprised me when she said, on a recent trip to Mexico, "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade." Strong words, and far more sagacious than George W. Bush's declaration, during a trip to Mexico in 2001, that, "One...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 15, 2009 | Blog
Tax Day. Fox News is flogging Astroturf "tea parties" underwritten by corporate lobbyists, while its pundits warn that raising the top income tax rate to the level it was under Bill Clinton constitutes "socialism." The Wall Street Journal editorializes about the evils...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 14, 2009 | Blog
Americans are paying big time now for decades of buying into a hoax. And it wasn't sub-prime mortgages. It was the conservative contention that government is evil and inept. Swallowing that absurd assertion resulted in relaxation and elimination of supposedly onerous...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 13, 2009 | Blog
Last week, in Part I of this short series, I talked about the three main scenarios that dominate progressive conversations about America's future: 1) Permanent Decline -- Due to Americans' native hyperindividualism, political apathy, and overweening willingness to...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 13, 2009 | Blog
We live in a sound-bite political culture. Politicos and policy makers hardly ever engage their opposite numbers in anything close to real debate. Instead, they inflict upon us carefully rehearsed talking points. And the rest of us usually don’t particularly...
by Eric Lotke | Apr 13, 2009 | Blog
Tax day is coming, and people are sad. But the problem isn’t taxes. The problem is fairness. Who pays taxes, and who gets the benefits. Today the Institute for America's Future publishes a new report that documents what we already know. The tax code is unfair, tilted...
