by Kenneth Bernstein | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
We were sitting in a Starbucks in Arlington, Va. It was our first meeting. Previously, Iowa governor Tom Vilsack and I had talked by phone and exchanged blog posts on education. His campaign staff had reached out to a number of educational bloggers, as he was...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
“Uncertainty” is the pitchfork that corporations now effectively wield to prod politicians into action. It’s a threat, as in, if Congress doesn’t do this or that, such as avoid the fiscal cliff or raise the debt ceiling, then corporations will suffer the unbearable...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
Sunday I interviewed Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, a union with 1.3 million members. Now that we know Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is leaving the administration and a new Labor Secretary will be appointed and confirmed, I asked him...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
People were outraged that AIG's board of directors considered suing its own rescuers last week. As a former AIG employee, I had a slightly different take on that story: The outrage was warranted (and Warren-ted), but there was somebody behind the scenes pulling the...
by Bill Moyers | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that saving money is not the path to economic recovery. Instead, he says, we should put aside our excessive focus on the deficit, try to overcome political recalcitrance, and spend money to...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
By all accounts Aaron Swartz was brilliant, gifted, idealistic ... and fragile. Too bad he wasn't "too big to fail." I never met Aaron, but I know a lot of people who knew him well. (We did "converse" as members of the same online discussion group.) I learned about...
