by Richard Eskow | Apr 14, 2013 | Blog
April 15 has never been considered a day for celebration, and it's especially tough to pay taxes when so many of us are struggling financially. But the real problem isn't taxation. Our real problem is the new "bipartisan" drive toward austerity, a mad obsession that...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 10, 2013 | Blog
It's hard to imagine a more relevant moment for the National Urban League to release its State of Black America 2013 report. This year, after all, marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation —...
by Jeff Faux | Apr 10, 2013 | Blog
The Democratic Party’s long-term prospects have dramatically improved since the November election. They will control the White House for another four years. The Republicans, who lost the total vote for the House of Representatives, remain captive of an unpopular...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2013 | Blog
President Obama's budget proposal is officially released into the wild. The president and the media are talking a lot about what the budget's deficit reductions offer to satisfy the priorities of the 1 percent - the donor/owner class. But there are things in this...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 9, 2013 | Blog
"She is not dead, she doth not sleep. She hath awakened from the dream of life. 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife ..." Margaret Thatcher's death raises a difficult etiquette question: How do you write about a person whose...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 9, 2013 | Blog
For years now Senate Republicans have been filibustering ... everything. At the end of last year there was an effort to convince Democrats in the Senate of the need to reform the filibuster so things We the People need to get done could get done. At the last minute,...
