by Richard Eskow | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog, Retirement Security
Actuarial science is the art of prediction. And speaking of predictions, here’s one that hasn’t been wrong yet: No matter what new data emerges about Social Security and Medicare, the well-funded opponents of those two worthy programs will always insist that we’re on...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 28, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Should an iPhone made in China and sold in England be counted as a U.S.-made manufacturing export? If a sneaky new proposal to change the way our trade deficit is measured is allowed to sneak through, this is exactly what will happen. At Least We Know It's Enormous,...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 28, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Rep. Keith Ellison, activist Joseph Geevarghese, and Eskow on The Zero Hour. There were no formalities when we interviewed Rep. Keith Ellison, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and activist Joseph Geevarghese on the crowded and clamorous floor of this...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
There is more and more interest in the stories about corporations "renouncing" their U.S. citizenship in order to evade paying taxes for the courts, roads, military, schools, and other public services that have made them prosperous. They are using something called...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The Wisconsin Public Radio/National Public Radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge regularly asks writers if they have a "Dangerous Idea" that they would like to talk about (unscripted). My Dangerous Idea was American exceptionalism. I did not speak on the dangers of...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Right-wing reaction to issues in the news this week brought to mind a classic 1980s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups commercial, but with a wingnut spin on the famous line: “Hey, you got your Malaysian airliner in my Benghazi!” Across the wingnut-o-sphere, right-wingers...
