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...
by Digby | Jan 18, 2013 | Blog
I've never understood why so many people think the Social Security actuaries have always been innumerate morons, but perhaps that's just a result of the decades of propaganda about government workers. The fact is that from the very beginning the SSA accurately...
by Richard Long | Jan 18, 2013 | Blog
Election night 2012 definitely felt like a victory for progressives. President Obama won re-election convincingly, with more than half the electorate casting ballots for the president, Democrats picked up two Senate seats and eight House seats. The fears of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 18, 2013 | Blog
Nate Silver has a much-discussed post today in The New York Times, "What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending?" Silver goes over the numbers and writes: To clarify: all of the major categories of government spending have been increasing relative to inflation. But...
by Digby | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog
Glenn Thrush has an interesting analysis of President Obama's strategy on gun control and it's one with which I agree. This truly does seem to be a different approach than anything we saw from him in the first term: Over the years, Democrats have jokingly referred to...
