by Bill Scher | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog
Yesterday Speaker John Boehner, right after acknowledging the video camera in the room, proceeded to blast Republicans afraid to vote on immigration. In a high-pitched mock whine, he impersonated his colleagues: "Ohhhh. Don’t make me do this! Ohhhh. This is too hard!"...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
[fve]http://youtu.be/FbnRnhrNFEY[/fve] "Dog-whistle," "code word" politics is not about what the politician says, it's about what the listener hears. Mitt Romney says this: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is in Asia, partly to "reassure" partner countries that the U.S. is a strong ally and partly to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Both are to counter China's growing influence. While TPP is being sold as a "strategic" countermeasure to China,...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Education
For most children, their first teacher is a parent or primary caregiver. And most teachers will tell you that parent behaviors in the home affect student learning in schools. So it would make sense to make sure education policy isn't strongly at odds with what we know...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
Mainstream Democratic campaign consultants and pollsters typically tell candidates they should "move to the right" and campaign to the "center" with positions that are "between" the "left" and the "right." This is the way, they say, to "attract swing voters" who would...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Economy
When a product sells phenomenally well, as Thomas Piketty's new book is currently doing, popular economic theory says that means one of two things: either it’s filling a substantial unmet demand, or the product is exceptionally well executed. In the case of "Capital...
