by Dave Johnson | Mar 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
A building in Harlem blows up because of a gas leak, killing at least eight people and injuring at least 70 others. A bridge collapse in Minneapolis killed 13 and injured 135. New Orleans' levees needed to be fixed but weren't, and more than 1,800 people died as a...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 25, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In the olden days, buying votes was a risky business. That’s not because the purchaser faced felony charges. No, the real peril was that the guy bribing voters wouldn’t get what he wanted. The process was too indirect. The man with “walking around money” would tell...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Unemployment Benefits
At a time when so many Americans are struggling economically, our nation continues to pay a steep price for its global empire – and in more ways than one. Consider this: On March 12 a bipartisan Senate deal was reached which would extend urgently needed unemployment...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 21, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
March Madness is upon us, in more ways than one. We know that right-wingers will howl with outrage over anything President Obama does — from using Air Force One to encouraging students to stay in school, and vacationing in Hawaii in stead of Pigeon Forge. So it’s no...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 18, 2014 | Blog
[fve]http://youtu.be/SDIucari3HQ[/fve] Republicans despise America’s poor and jobless. The GOP made that perfectly clear by repeatedly denouncing them and cutting food stamps and unemployment benefits. But last week, Republicans revealed that they also hate...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 17, 2014 | Blog
New York has a new mayor who wants to remake his deeply unequal city into much more than a playground for the super rich. The experts who track global wealth trends don’t think he’s going to succeed. A new report from Knight Frank, a global property consultancy firm,...
