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...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog
Harold Myerson, over at the Washington Post, points out a new report by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine contains some bad news about about the America's health. The title pretty much says it all: "U.S. Health in International...
by David Shuster | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog
As our nation promotes representative democracy around the world, it is time to finally bring it to those who don't have it here in the United States -- the citizens of Washington, D.C. As we discussed recently on Take Action News, the 618,000 residents of the...
