by Bill Scher | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog
The strong reaction to President Obama's extended remarks on the climate suggests that he wasn't doing anything on the matter and suddenly feels liberated to do so. Not so. As I have discussed twice previously, after the failure of the Congress to pass a carbon cap in...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog
Senators, before you vote today on the "make them talk" proposal, go ask members of the public what a filibuster is. The public thinks a filibuster is senators talking all night. It is not a "nuclear option" to change the rules to what the public thinks the rules...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog
Before the election reporters and pundits were saying that not so many people would turn out this time, that it would be close at best. But on election day it turned out that it wasn't even close. The people did turn out, some waiting in lines four, five, six hours to...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 20, 2013 | Blog
How do unequal societies solve the problems — like traffic congestion — that make us miserable? They come up with solutions that make life easier for rich people. Politicians and bureaucrats “inside the Beltway” that circles Washington, D.C., pundits like to prattle,...
by Robert Kuttner | Jan 18, 2013 | Blog
President Barack Obama won a tactical victory on New Year’s weekend by forcing Republicans to raise taxes on the top 1 percent, but he has far bigger challenges to address—and so do progressives. The economy is still at risk of several more years of hidden depression,...
by Bill Moyers | Jan 18, 2013 | Blog
On this week’s Moyers & Company (check local listings), Larry Cohen, president of the 700,000-member Communications Workers of America, joins Bill to make the case for common-sense filibuster reform that would bring the Senate back to serving democracy. Cohen is a...
