by Daniel Marans | Mar 20, 2013 | Blog
As the US kicked off the Iraq War on the evening of March 19, 2003, with the infamous "shock and awe" bombardment of Baghdad, I huddled into a small high school classroom for an antiwar gathering organized by several faculty members. Little did I know at the time...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 20, 2013 | Blog
Watch this video, Movin' in, kids! Then click through and give it a rating because the video with the most view and best rating wins! [youtube]http://youtu.be/ZZQlbtlErLo[/youtube] This video comes to you from Just Scrap The Cap. The Story The Peter G. Peterson...
by Digby | Mar 20, 2013 | Blog
Jared Bernstein has posted some very important information that one can only hope both the White House and the Democrats are aware of and prepared to change direction because of. It shows that our runaway medical costs are actually slowing down and he posits that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog
Adele Stan, the Washington editor of AlterNet, says that as crazy and extreme as some of what is said and done at the Conservative Political Action Conference seems to be, progressives should still be concerned about the ability of conservatives to win the political...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog
Egalitarian-minded academics have just subjected a central political question of our time to some rigorous research scrutiny. Billionaire Warren Buffett is still paying taxes at a lower rate than his secretary. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz last year collected $117.5...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog
HuffPost Live had a discussion segment based on a piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the racist BusinessWeek cover that depicted greedy minority borrowers raking in fistfuls of cash from "liar loans." The session included a mistreated homeowner named Rose...
