by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has been writing about America’s economically divided society since the 1960s. His recent book,The Price of Inequality, argues that this division is holding the country back, a topic he has also explored in recent research supported by...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
On June 8, 2014, white, anti-government, tea party supporters shot and killed two Las Vegas police officers. Conservative media was conspicuously silent. On Saturday, Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot and killed NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos as they sat in their...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
After the debilitating defeats of 2014, Democrats face a harsh winter, wandering in a bleak wilderness, trying to find the way out. Redemption will come only if Democrats use this time to rethink their course, and develop new ideas, a clearer sense of their own...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Santa Cruz came to town this week, when Sen. Ted Cruz (R, Texas) inadvertently gave Senate Democrats an early holiday gift. Democrats taunted Cruz and Republicans cursed him for pulling a parliamentary shenanigan that let Democrats push through two dozen nominations...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Another Citigroup alumni has been nominated to a key high-level position in the Obama administration. This time it's a lateral move: Marisa Lago, who has been serving in the Treasury Department as Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Development since...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Education
Since it’s the time of the year when newspapers, websites, and television talk shows scan their archives to pick the person, place, or thing that sums up the year in entertainment, business, sports, or every other venue, why not do that for education, too? In 2014...
