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Finally, a president who works for workers

It would be easy in these troubled times to shrink from campaign promises, to cower from the greatness that might have been, to claim that the beast of the Bush recession had devoured the nation’s potential to achieve great goals. President Barack Obama chose instead...

A Tea Party Celebrating Fake Populism

All you really need to know about the so-called Great American Tea Party, the series of protests a coalition of right-wing organizations and bloggers is fanning around the country, is that they draw their inspiration from Rick Santelli, the CNBC on-air personality who...

Obama: The Cap on Carbon Is Coming...

President Barack Obama yesterday made a very specific demand for averting a climate crisis and transitioning to a clean energy economy when he said, "I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the...

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