by Richard Eskow | Oct 8, 2013 | Blog
Journalists are understandably captivated by the government shutdown and the looming confrontation over the debt ceiling. Those are certainly dramatic stories. But another, quieter drama has been playing out for years in homes and communities across the country, as...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 8, 2013 | Blog
Republicans tried and tried, more than 40 times, in fact. Unlike the Little Engine That Could, the GOP couldn’t. They just couldn’t repeal the Affordable Care Act. Last week they switched tracks to exploit a different tactic – extortion. It’s an old style mafia...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 7, 2013 | Blog
This is the 100th anniversary of Ford's moving assembly line. The Highland Park, Michigan facility opened October 7, 1913 and one week later a Model T rolled off the line. The Model T had been in production for five years, but the cost-savings that came from the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 7, 2013 | Blog
Remember how Republicans "won" the 2000 election? Remember how they tricked the country into going to war in Iraq? They used non-democratic means to get what they couldn't get legitimately, and it worked, so they did it more. They got used to getting their way using...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 7, 2013 | Blog
(Originally published in Alternet) Of course they shut the Federal government down. Tea Party Republicans long for the days when there were no government authorities to enforce laws and restrain the power of unchecked wealth, the days when there was no Justice...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 5, 2013 | Blog
Executives at private companies with federal contracts are getting rich off our tax dollars — at the expense of their low-wage workers. But we can turn the tables. Here's how. The debate over America’s federal budget is getting stale — and getting us nowhere, as the...
