by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Cutting federal spending doesn't "save money" – certainly not the way conservatives in Congress and in the states have been doing it. If you cut the Internal Revenue Service budget, that obviously increases the deficit because it lowers the government's ability to...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
Republicans have adopted a Halloween-themed campaign strategy that they hope will incite voters to run screaming from Democrats. The GOP message: Americans should be very, very afraid because the homeland is under attack from ghouls and goblins manifest as Ebola and...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Ferguson; ISIS; Ebola; accelerating climate change; growing inequality; deepening poverty; an election likely to worsen, not reduce paralysis – pessimism of the intellect is easy these days; optimism of the will takes some work. Tonight at its annual Gala, the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog
"It is hard to understate the intensity of the response to the role of big money." Mike Lux, writing at The Huffington Post in "Four Weeks Out: What Will Be the Narrative of Election 2014?," echoes something that we have been pounding on here at OurFuture.org:...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
As autumn descends on the nation’s capital, people are saying there’s a darkness on the edge of town. It’s born of the fear, pessimism and uncertainty that have become the Republican political brand. And if the polls are right, there’s every chance that its shadow...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
The GOP is rolling out a list of “principles” and pretending to have a “positive agenda,” because Republicans can’t tell Americans what they really want to do. Twenty years after Newt Gingrich launched the “Contract With America,” Republican Party Chairman Reince...
