by Dave Johnson | Oct 1, 2013 | Blog
Holy smokes, who gave Republicans the keys to the car again? Just look what they did this time! Haven't We the People learned our lesson yet? We saw what they did to the country after Bush got elected. Remember the Onion headline: Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 30, 2013 | Blog
Exactly a hundred years ago, decades of progressive struggle finally paid off and outfitted America with a tool for braking the unlimited accumulation of grand private fortune. The federal income tax this week turns a century old. A hundred years ago, on...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 27, 2013 | Blog
Get back to funding government. Stop harming the economy. Budget cuts and the sequester are killing the economic recovery and jobs. Several key House and Senate Democrats have come out for cancelling the sequester as part of the current budget negotiations. The House...
by Bill Scher | Sep 27, 2013 | Blog
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Today on MSNBC, I noted that a debt default is inconceivable, and at the end of the day, Speaker John Boehner won't allow it. To go over that cliff risks a global depression and Republican...
by Emily Foster | Sep 27, 2013 | Blog
In just four days, uninsured Americans will finally be able to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s new health exchanges. But Republicans in the states are engaged in shady efforts to block the operation of these exchanges in ways that affect millions of citizens. They...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 26, 2013 | Blog
A new study says that nearly half of all American jobs may soon be performed by robots. And the White House has just announced the formation of “the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Steering Committee ‘2.0,’” which it describes as “part of a continuing effort to...
