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,...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week Rep. Paul Ryan took the cake. After debuting his embarrassing copy-and-paste job on the war on poverty last week, only to get his knuckles rapped by the very scholars whose work he cribbed, Ryan outdid himself with a clumsy bit of dog whistle politics...
