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...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog
The Senate is completely broken, with a minority obstructing everything. Minority. Obstructing. Every. Thing. Everything. There were more than 380 filibusters in just the last few years! In a few days the Senate will vote on fixing this and making them talk if they...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog
Here's a thought experiment: What if a group of Social Security and Medicare recipients wanted to increase their benefits by, say, 1,000 percent, and proposed seizing rich people's assets – houses, cars, boats, whatever – to pay for it? And whenever anybody suggested...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
Today, President Obama signed a broad array of executive orders to curb gun violence, in what was the boldest Presidential action against gun violence since the Clinton administration. In a speech that recalled the shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Col., and...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
That deficit problem we keep hearing about is gone. When it comes to spending cuts, it's time to follow the advice a general offered when we were mired in Vietnam: Declare victory and get out. We had a deficit problem, once, although it was never as urgent or as...
