by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog
The Campaign for America's Future 's Roger Hickey today joins a long list of leaders who are calling on President Obama to name Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, to be the next Secretary of Labor. "The next...
by Digby | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog
John Nichols compiles a list of quotes from some of the "Randiest" members of congress (and I'm talking about people who have the hots for a dead Russian romance novelist.) But then he features one who makes even the Rand lovin' Paul Ryan look like a casual reader:...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog
The GOP is perhaps just beginning to digest the message of the 2012 election; in which the demographics of their coalition can be summed up as old, white, wealthy, and male — compared to the diverse coalition that gave Barack Obama a second term, helped the...
by Digby | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog
Josh Holland has a nice succinct rundown on the possible roadblocks to the immigration reform effort. It's a little bit more complicated than it seems at first: [C]onventional wisdom may be underestimating the degree of fractiousness that defines the conservative...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog
Last week, 11 European nations forged ahead to create a new tax while American Republicans walked backward into a no-new-tax trap. On Jan. 22, the European Union gave 11 member countries – including economic giants Germany and France – permission to institute a...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
Tim Geithner left office on Friday and the revisionism's already underway. By any objective measure except one, Geithner's tenure failed to achieve its goals. And that one success, in rescuing the mega-banks of Wall Street, may prove to be the undoing of Obama's...
